Is it possible to manually activate an eth0 connection?

[Bas Roufs]

Dear NoOp and Everybody Else

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> Regarding your other problem; do you see any interface as up when you
> issue the 'ifconfig -a' command from a terminal?

Below, I share with you what comes out of a ifconfig-a test at a
terminal at my laptop, copied via an USB stick. A striking detail is
the '24 errors' (whatever they may be), mentioned next to 'RX Packets'
and 'TX-Packets', in the 2nd alinea ('lo').

Respectfully yours,

Bas.

bas at Viaconsensus2:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:ca:bc:9e:88
          inet addr:192.168.1.20  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1800

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:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1384 (1.3 KB)  TX bytes:1384 (1.3 KB)

pan0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5e:2f:b1:00:15:0b
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)





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