I was just thinking of how waiting for wifi to connect hangs my pis booting. Times out at 1 minute 20 seconds or so. If the interface was supposed to be connected to the router to be considered to be up that could be a problem.
lo is loopback, 127.0.0.1, always points to the machine you're on. Won't help in this case. Has its uses though. Even windows95 had traceroute, jeez. On 9/24/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2017 17:50:22 Alan Corey wrote: > >> Try putting your static route in interfaces, in the eth0 section with >> an up, like >> >> iface eth0 inet static >> address 192.168.71.3/24 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> up route add default gw 192.168.71.1 >> >> I think post-up might be too late, maybe there's a pre-up. >> > Whatever, didn't work either, so I was trying "variations on a theme" and > locked myself out, so I pulled on some slippers and fished a light out > of my pocket, opened the fire door out of the bedroom and padded across > the back deck to the garage, to be greeted by the monitor showing me an > x login. Neat, but no response from the keyboard or mouse. Reset it > several times to no avail. ISTR seeing something about x killing the usb > power on the forum. I can see the effect of keypresses while the boot > msgs are scrolling by, so that forum msg now makes sense. Might have to > round up a bigger psu, its running on a pi supply rated at 2.5 amps, > mini-wall-wart type. I've got a bigger one lounging about in that midden > heap, a meanwell perforated box rated at 3, maybe 4 amps. > > So I'll stick the card back in a reader tomorrow, see if I can find that > eth0 file and remove my last variation, which was "pre-up" IIRC. If > that kills the x login, then Houston, we have a problem. :) Twon't be > the first time I've had to backtrack. :) Sigh... > > There is another possibility, ifconfig shows a lo interface but there > isn't any such starter file! There is an lo stanza on the jessie/pi. So > one of my experiments will be to compose one, just for S&G. Steal it > out of the pi's jessie file. Yeah, valid experiment that. > > Thanks Alan. > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach