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 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?
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."
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