On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, Rich Shepard wrote: > 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.
UPDATE: The Sony seems to have cured itself; my friend is working with it now and has no issues connecting to the 'Net. I'm puzzled but pleased. The Dell continues to behave strangely. For reasons beyond my knowledge, rc.inet1.conf lost the NO in the line 'use dhcp' for eth0. That's why resolv.conf was constantly being emptied. I modified the network configuration file and upon rebooting the resolv.conf contents were retained. But, for some (again) unknown reason, rc.inetd is not being run so there is no network deamon and no routes. Manually running /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd start restored the routes. If need be, I can duplicate that line in rc.local. It would be nice to learn why it's not being run during the boot process. This still leaves one issue that I have not been able to resolve despite searching the Web for insights: eth0 has no carrier. I don't know where that is controlled and have not found an applicable reference to someone else solving this issue. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
