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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

netcfg2 and bringing up ethernet interface by hand - ifconfig up

I am using netcfg2 to connect to my various networks. If I want to connect to wireless networks, everything works nice and flawlessly. If I want to connect to an ethernet though, netcfg2 cannot connect to it, unless I manually bring up the interface.

Here is the error output:

$ sudo netcfg2 ethernet
:: ethernet up                                                           [BUSY] eth0: timed out
                - DHCP IP lease attempt failed                           [FAIL]

And then after a successful ifconfig eth0 up:

$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
$ sudo netcfg2 ethernet
:: ethernet up                                                           [DONE]

I remember things to be different a couple of netcfg2 versions ago. What has changed? And can't this bringing up an network interface be integrated into netcfg2 somehow?

Damnshock

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 414

Re: netcfg2 and bringing up ethernet interface by hand - ifconfig up

Same problem here, not with netcfg2 though but with the standard network script :S

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: netcfg2 and bringing up ethernet interface by hand - ifconfig up

Could you file a bug so that I can make sure this works in the next release? http://bugs.archlinux.org

In the meantime, you could probably workaround it by adding PRE_UP="ifconfig eth0 up"

Stalafin

Member

From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

Re: netcfg2 and bringing up ethernet interface by hand - ifconfig up

Could you file a bug so that I can make sure this works in the next release? http://bugs.archlinux.org

In the meantime, you could probably workaround it by adding PRE_UP="ifconfig eth0 up"

I have filed a bug report and attached rc.conf and the associated network profile:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12069

I don't know if you need any info about my system... It's basically a Thinkpad X60s... all Intel stuff in there...

Hope it helps!