On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:32:18PM -0500, Luke Shulenburger wrote: > Hello, > I've been running unstable on my laptop for about a month now and just > recently when I booted up I can't get anything on the network. Whenever > I try to ping localhost (or any other host for that matter) I get: > > ping: sendto: Network is unreachable > > I don't have a clue what's going on. I have a Xircom PC network card > that has been previously working quite well for me using a pcmcia-cs > that I've compiled from source to work with my 2.2.17 kernel. I've > tried looking at the logs and nothing seems particularly out of place > except these messages during bootup (excerpted from syslog) > > eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatable mode rev 3 at 0x200, > 00:10:A4:0F:D4:54, IRQ 9 > > eth0: MII transceiver #0 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1 > > cardmgr[548]:" executing: './network start eth0' > cardmgr[548]: + eth0: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor > > cardmgr[548]: + SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor > cardmgr[548]: + eth0: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor > cardmgr[548]: + SIOCSIFNETMASK: Bad file descriptor > cardmgr[548]: + SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Bad file descriptor > cardmgr[548]: + eth0: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor > kernel: neighbor table overflow > last message repeated 3 times > cardmgr[548]: + SIOCADDRT: No such device > cardmgr[548]: + SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable > > Does anybody have any ideas? I don't quite know where to begin, I can't > think of anything that changed from one reboot to the next. Your help > would be greatly appreciated.
You don't say which version of net-tools, pcmcia, or ifupdown if any that you are running. I am not positive WRT your exact setup, but I can tell you those errors are a known issue with net-tools 1.58-1. Apparently upstream released with a missing check for certain file descriptors. If you are using net-tools 1.58-1, you need to upgrade/downgrade. HTH Gordon Sadler
