Problems with upgrading to Intrepid from hardy

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Christian <christian08 at runbox.com> wrote:

> From: Christian <christian08 at runbox.com>
> Subject: Re[2]: Problems with upgrading to Intrepid from hardy
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 6:07 AM
> Hi David,
> 
> 
> On 2008-11-10 at 16:50 David Curtis wrote:
> 
> >On Monday 10 November 2008 16:19:10 Christian wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >> I have just installed the new Intrepid release,
> but I am experiencing
> >> problems with it. I know that this was a bug
> reported earlier on, but my
> >> ethernet card doesn't seem to work anymore. I
> am using the one integraded
> >> into the main board, an Intel.
> >> I upgraded to Intrepid by changing everything from
> hardy in
> >> /etc/apt/sources.list to intrepid. The upgrade
> seem to have been working
> >> fine except that.
> >> Best regards and thanks,
> >> Christian
> >
> >The Intel Ethernet problem was fixed in the kernel
> before 8.10 was
> >released.  
> >What is the output of ifconfig? (from a terminal). 
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1b:fc:20:ff:6d  
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:64  Metric:1
>           RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:1
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:1390 (1.3 KB)  TX bytes:1814 (1.8 KB)
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:23144 (23.1 KB)  TX bytes:23144 (23.1
> KB)
> 
> 
I haven't seen David's response to your ifconfig post; maybe I missed it.  However, I think your MTU of 64 is incorrect for a broadband connection. Mine is 1500(I think even 1492 is ok) on an ATT DSL Pro ISP. You can change the MTU with ifconfig but you would need to read the man to see how. Or, better still, wait for Davis's reply or anyone with better knowledge of networking and broadband than me. 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net