Hoary upgrade: no network connection

[Christoph Bier]

Carl Karsten schrieb:
> Next guess - your problem has nothing to do with the upgrade, but 
> another box on the LAN has the same IP, or maybe MAC.

Wouldn't this have become already a problem before the upgrade,
too!? But no: not the same IP or MAC.

> You said you can't ping the gateway during the "blackout" - can you ping 
> it now? (just to be sure your admin hasn't done something dumb.)

No, I can't. Unfortunately there's no real admin but me =).

> During the "blackout", can you ping localhost?

Yes.

> If no, then stop, else
> 
> During the "blackout", can you ping another box that is up, and can it 
> ping you?

Who is 'me' for you ;-)? Just to make it clear: the blackout-machine
is called fee, the one I'm sitting in front of is called lotus. I
can't ping fee from lotus and vice versa.

> If No to either, is it posaible to isolate the 2 machines from the rest 
> of the LAN, like with a crossover cable, unplug everything else from the 
> hub/switch or plug the 2 into a spare hub? (what, everyone doesn't carry 
> around a hub with them?)

No, no crossover cable at hand.

> Carl K
> 
> ps, I am moving this to ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com, - CC me in your 
> reply just to be sure

Done.

Thanks again for your answer.

Regards,
     Christoph
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