I'm looking for ideas from those more expert on networking on what I've overlooked in this situation.
We have two portables here: a Dell Latitude which has never had any issues connecting to the LAN via ethernet or to external networks wirelessly, and a Sony Vaio which has had wireless connectivity issues with each distribution upgrade. Today, both have issues connecting on the LAN via ethernet. I'll the problem with the Dell but the Sony's issues are the same. And I've tried this on two different ethernet connections. After booting there are no eth0 routes, broadcast or default and /etc/resolv.conf has been cleaned out. After resetting /etc/resolv.conf and manually adding broadcast and default routes for eth0 I try running 'ifconfig eth0 up' but that does not bring up a running interface. Thinking that I need to restart the networking daemon, I run '/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart' without resolving the problem. (The details for eth0 and the default gateway for eth0 are in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf which should be read by rc.inetd when it's started.) Not before having such uncooperative behavior from a portable I'm at a loss what to do. All the obvious possibilities: resolv.conf, routing table, networking daemon, and configuring the interface do not make a difference. Where else should I look? And, what could possibly remove routes and resolv.conf contents when the system is shut down or the cat5 cable disconnected? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
