Is it possible to manually activate an eth0 connection?
Eberhard Roloff
tuxebi at gmx.de
Fri Jan 16 19:14:55 UTC 2009
NoOp wrote:
> On 01/16/2009 08:45 AM, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>
>>> 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)
>>>
>> What is this?
>> Presumably this is your pcmcia card??
>> If so, I would remove it for now.
>
> pan0 is "Personal Area Networking Profile (PAN)" used for Bluetooth. In
> inrepid if you turn off Bluetooth services
> (System|Administration|Services) - 'Bluetooth device management' and
> rerun 'ifconfig -a' you will not longer see pan0. If you turn it back on
> (Bluetooth device management) it will reapear.
>
>
>
Thanks much for explanation.
Does that mean that you can have a PAN device, even if your laptop does
not have bluetooth?
Kind regards
Eberhard
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