Re: Help! Network interfaces not working

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:44:38 -0700

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:53:32 -0700
Perfect Reign <theperfectreign@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Fired up the laptop today after being at work. I'm at home with DSL
> and a wireless router. DHCP is setup. All has been well since July
> with the laptop.
>
> I was connected all day at work on my domain with the laptop through a
> cable.
>
> I've ran Yast and the NICs are auto detected. I've rebooted and tried
> ifconfig.
>
> Ideas? I googled but get a bazillion hits. What could I do to get the
> connection to be available?
>

What is the output of:

   su
   (enter root password)
   ifconfig
   iwconfig

From the above results, bring down each interface (except 'lo', of
course!) with:

   ifdown eth0
   ifdown wlan0

and so on, substituting your actual device designations of course. Then
bring up just the wireless one with:

   ifup wlan0

or whichever one is appropriate for your version . . . 

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