At 14:30:35 on Monday Monday 12 October 2009, Per Jessen
Stan Goodman wrote:
As I reported in a previous thread, the inability of my laptop system to see the Ethernet controller was solved, and I was able to connect with the Internet.
After shutting the machine down and booting it in the morning, I found that I am no longer able to communicate with the outside world.
Network Devices now reports the controller as "not connected", meaning that it can see it. (In theprevious thread, it reported that the controller was not in hwinfo.)
Running ifup on the interface produced:
***** # ifup eth0 Interface eth0 is not available. *****
Stan (in private discussion with me) also reported that /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules is empty - AFAIK, it is automagically populated, so I don't quite understand why it would be empty.
/Per
Actually, the file I was asked to examine was . I did report it as empty, but now I check again and find that it doesn't exist at all. Overlooking vi's remark that it is New File is yet another reminder that I mustn't do this sort of thing at late hours. Now examining the file instead, I see that it is populated and has rules: ***** SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR(address)=="00:26:b9:01:11:af", ATTR(type)=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME=="eth0" ***** -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org