On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Carl Karsten <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:43 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. >> > > What wifi card/chip set? lspci should tell you. > > my Atherose (sp) gave me problems like you are having. i had to > enable hardy-backports or something like that. > > dmesg - look for network related lines, post them. > > -- > Carl K > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
The rt2500/rt2x00 drivers weren't working for a while around that 8.04/8.10 time (fixed with most recent hardy kernels), and I had to download/build/install the development version. The wireless card in my laptop is an old Zonet ZEW1501 that I got from ENU. In any case, you should be able to connect to the router with (gasp) an ehternet cable, do the update, and go back to wireless after that. - tony - tony _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
