Uninstalling Network Manager -> No More WiFi (Dapper)

[Antony Gelberg]

Brian Puccio wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 09:43 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> 
>>Please post output of cat /etc/network/interfaces, output of dmesg |grep
>>eth, and output of ifconfig.
> 
> 
> brian at alpha:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> iface eth2 inet static
> address 192.168.1.14
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.1.1
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.1.13
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.1.1
> wireless-essid Eric
> wireless-key s:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> auto eth2

Nice.

> brian at alpha:~$ ifconfig
> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:6B:06:4C:85
>           inet addr:192.168.1.14  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::209:6bff:fe06:4c85/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:14023 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:10280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:9685929 (9.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1070109 (1.0 MiB)
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:2128 (2.0 KiB)  TX bytes:2128 (2.0 KiB)
> 

Nice.

> brian at alpha:~$ dmesg | grep eth
> [4294687.062000] e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xc0205000, irq 11, MAC
> addr 00:09:6B:06:4C:85
> [4294690.473000] e100: eth2: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps,
> full-duplex
> [4294700.913000] eth2: no IPv6 routers present
> [4294773.539000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> [4294820.516000] e100: eth2: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps,
> full-duplex
> [4294831.007000] eth2: no IPv6 routers present
> brian at alpha:~$

Hmm, your dmesg doesn't refer to eth hardware detection.  Your system
must have been on for a while.  I assume eth0 is your wireless card.

What happens if you try ifdown eth2 && ifup eth0?

>>NB There is no need to reboot, you should just be able to do
>>/etc/init.d/networking restart.
> 
> 
> Actually tried that first but when it didn't work, I restarted.
> 
> Thanks!
>