On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:43 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. > > Thanks, > > Rich > > -- > Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation > <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: > 503-667-8863 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > /sbin/iwconfig eth{$} essid "your ssid" channel auto key $key dhcpcd $eth{$} should bring it up but that's the manual ghetto way of doing it. Man iwconfig will give you all the options you might need. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
