On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > The upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 on the laptop broke the networking > capability. The laptop connects to the LAN via a wireless card and I cannot > get it recognized and the network started. > > In /etc/networking/interfaces I see that there are three defined > interfaces: > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > auto eth0 > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > auto eth1 > > iface eth2 inet dhcp > auto eth2 > > eth1 is supposed to be the wireless one; all three have static information > commented out. > > I tried 'ifconfig eth(n) up' without success. I also tried > '/etc/init.d/networking start' without success. Obviously, I'm missing > something simple here and would very much appreciate a clue stick. I need to > get the network up so I can upgrade the system to 9.04, re-learn how to fix > the networking if it breaks again, and return the machine to my wife so I > can get back to my work. >
What wifi card/chip set? lspci should tell you. my Atherose (sp) gave me problems like you are having. i had to enable hardy-backports or something like that. dmesg - look for network related lines, post them. -- Carl K _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
