Haven't been on my ascii setup for a week or so. so I did the 'update & 'upgrade routine installed these upgrades:: [see below]
' did a reboot and lost my network connection. ifconfig isn't available anymore (am I getting old?!) ip was too confusing to me ' ended up doing this: sudo bash /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart .....(ethtool script didn't help??) ' noted in my 'Linux guide' *second reboot - works now!* some dmesg info and console notetaking:: this is a part of the dmesg log, copied it from the console right after logon [ 1.505647] 8139cp: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) [ 1.505656] 8139cp 0000:02:05.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too [ 1.506495] 8139too: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 [ 1.507804] 8139too 0000:02:05.0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xffffb0de40661c00, 00:19:21:c9:14:f6, IRQ 20 ***time stamps jumped about 30 seconds with no messages [ 44.473509] 8139too 0000:02:05.0 eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000 [ 44.512059] floppy0: no floppy controllers found [ 48.850748] EXT4-fs (sdb7): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro [ 171.515112] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module. [ 171.515116] RPC: Registered udp transport module. [ 171.515117] RPC: Registered tcp transport module. [ 171.515119] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. ***** My screen showed (almost verbatim) "Configure network..... ifup: waiting for lock on /run/network/ifstate.eth0" [waited for a time period - I think in the 30+ second gap] then reported :: "if eth0 already configured" [then it went on to boot up to the console ' ' *********************************************************** installed these upgrades:: The following packages have been kept back: eom eom-common libmate-slab0 libmate-window-settings1 mate-control-center mate-polkit mate-polkit-common pluma pluma-common The following packages will be upgraded: adwaita-icon-theme apt apt-utils bind9-host dnsutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light host libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libbind9-140 libc-bin libc-l10n libc6 libdns-export162 libdns162 libgcrypt20 libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutls30 libisc-export160 libisc160 libisccc140 libisccfg140 liblwres141 libopenmpt-modplug1 libopenmpt0 libperl5.24 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libpulsedsp libsystemd0 libtiff5 libudev1 linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 linux-image-amd64 locales multiarch-support os-prober perl perl-base perl-modules-5.24 pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils udev xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-legacy 49 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
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