Hi Laban, So, is there a reason Edubuntu (I was installing 13.04) 'disabled' the interface by omitting the 'auto' keyword? Maybe that is what I need to find out, otherwise I am so far okay with Ubuntu with the edu packages installed. On 15 July 2013 11:56, Laban Mwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
You are missing an auto eth0 So the line auto lo should now be auto lo eth0
--- Man page: http://man.he.net/man5/interfaces Lines beginning with the word "auto" are used to identify the physical interfaces to be brought up when ifup is run with the -a option. (This option is used by the system boot scripts.) Physical interface names should follow the word "auto" on the same line. There can be multiple "auto" stanzas. ifup brings the named interfaces up in the order listed.
This may be a little late, but may help someone someday. On some installs, the eth interface gets renamed during booting, such that the default eth0 becomes eth1 (or some other number). Running "dmesg | grep eth" will usually point this out - error message like "...eth0 renamed to eth2...". If that is the case, changing eth0 to eth1 (or whatever) in the interface file, then restarting networking, sorts things out. However, you have to do this after each reboot. I have yet to figure out what causes/caused that particular headache.
~hth~
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com
wrote:
Here is an odd one.
I am installing Edubuntu on a PC for my kid. It's dual booting Windows
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:15 AM, MotoBaridi <motobaridi@gmail.com> wrote: 7.
During the installation process, the network interface is active.
However,
once the installation is complete there is no Ethernet interface and so network is inactive.
I am looking at /etc/network/interfaces and I see:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
I am sorry, but I haven't read much on Edubuntu. Could this be the default setting - that the network is disabled to protect the kid from the 'hostile Internet' - just in case? Else, why this behaviour?
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