<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM, R Kimber <<a href="mailto:richardkimber@btinternet.com">richardkimber@btinternet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> After my broadband goes down and is then restored, my networking never restores automatically, and the command that Googling leads me to understand should restore it never works: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart I've also tried ifup eth0 and sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart In each case I get errors about eth0 being unknown. The logs say:- Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): DHCP transaction took too long, stopping it. Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): canceled DHCP transaction, dhcp client pid 1487 Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Timeout) scheduled... Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Timeout) started... Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 7 -> 9 (reason 5) Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> Marking connection 'Auto eth0' invalid. Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) failed. Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Timeout) complete. Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0) Mar 3 15:00:40 infinity NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 0). The only thing that works is a reboot. Am I using the wrong commands? Or is there a tweak that will overcome the problem? - Richard </blockquote><div> Is this service with Comcast? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Richard Kimber Political Science Resources <a href="http://www.PoliticsResources.net/" target="_blank">http://www.PoliticsResources.net/</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>