Since switching to a new machine and upgrading to the latest Sid, I've been having some weird problems getting a wired connection to the net.
Running `ifup eth0` brings up a net connection -- but not in the morning for some reason....times out with a "No DHCPOFFERS received" message. Repeatedly. I've been trying this every day for over a week, and like clockwork, morning = no connection, evening = connection. BUT, even though the ethernet connection doesn't work in the mornings, `ifup wlan0` will bring up a wireless connection in the morning just fine. This "I'm not a morning-type" ethernet is coming out of the very same NETGEAR wifi router that successfully provides a wifi connection any time of day. And when I try my old laptop (running a not-as-up-to-date Sid), it works fine, gets that ethernet connection in the mornings every time. My /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp iface wlan0 inet dhcp pre-up wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -B -c /home/john/.wpa_supplicant.conf post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant And my ~/.wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant network={ ssid="mynet" psk="****************" } Thanks for any help sorting this out, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110629050330.gc3...@s70206.gridserver.com