On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 18:05, Marco Franzen wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Potato, and have just migrated from ISDN to cable modem. > For this I had to introduce Ethernet (soft&hardware) and DHCP. > > Internet is working again, but only "once". After "ifdown eth0", an > "ifup eth0" only hangs for a while and says "Operation failed". If I > forget to switch the modem on together with the computer (so that it > does not finish initialising before the ifup in the boot script times > out), I cannot get the network to work at all without rebooting.
snip It's most likely pump. I have the same problems but have been too busy to deal with it. I beleive going to dhcpcd should solve your problem. It worked flawlessly for me until I rebuilt my firewall from scratch and went with pump due to it being the default. --mike
