I was searching on eBay in Fedora 11, and suddenly the ethernet stopped working on my laptop. Meantime, the desktop computer continued to stream Radio Clasique from Paris, so it was not the fault of Comcast. All lights are blinking except the ethernet port on the laptop and the other end of the cable on the switch. Those lights are lit up, but not blinking. I have reseated and even changed all the cables, but still no connection.
On the Gnome panel the network icon has a red x on it. If I click on it everything is grayed out. >From the command line ifconfig -a shows the ethernet. But "ifconfig eth0 up" does nothing. I have rebooted three times and ethernet is always off when I log in. >From the command line dhclient executes without error, but accomplishes nothing. Also, sudo "NetworkManager restart" executes without error, but there is no change. Looking at /var/og/messages shows about 30 pages of mesages during thelast boot. There is a block of half a dozen messages starting with NetworkManager every so often. Sometimes it appears it is turning the device off, but then it appears to be connecting, then off again, and so on. The mesages are written in Geek, so I could not understand them. For example, the following is typical: NetworklManager WARN nmsignal_handler() Caught signal 15, shutting down normally NetworkManager <info> (eth0) now unmanaged NetworkManager <info> (eth0) device state change 2 -> 1 (reason 36) NetworkManager <info> (eth0) cleaning up ... NetworkManager <info> (eth0) taking down device The next group of messages leads one to think that eth0 is functioning normally. It would be really helpful to the end user if device states 1 and 2 were defined, not to mention reason 36. There are lots of other device state changes and reasons in other groups of messages regarding netowrking, all use vague numbers so you have no idea what they mean. Here I was thinking Fedora may be a keeper. I can handle the odd bug, but suddenly disabling eth0 is just not acceptable. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
