Re: Troubleshooting connection loss (continued)

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:22:10 GMT, Allen Weiner wrote:

This problem is frustrating. I firmly believe (with almost no supporting
evidence) that a reboot to regain a lost Internet connection should be a
last resort.

I agree.

I might have missed it, but is that first boot after winME was running?


I also believe (again with no supprting evidence), that there should be
a straightforward troubleshooting procedure when a "service network
restart" hangs.

It is staight forward, ethtoo/mii-tool says the nic is connected and
ping should tell where it fails.

So far, my guess is riding on the router is refusing the connection
because the dhcp lease issued to winME has expired.
That is why I wanted your fedora
/etc/hosts file set somewhat as follows:
$ head -3 /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.140 fedora.home.invalid fedora
192.168.1.1 gateway


$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=fedora.home.invalid

and you have set eth0 up as static for ip 192.168.1.140

.

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