[Hardy] Network-Admin doesn't set eth0 properly

[Sam Williams]

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

gnome-system-tools:
  Installed: 2.22.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.22.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When I re-installed Hardy a few days ago it came up with the network interface configured with "roaming enabled". Tonight I finally got back to taking a look at returning the system to the point it was when re-installation was necessary. I went to network-admin and configured a statis ip address. When I tried restarting the network interface eth-0 wouldn't come up. I foolishly tried rebooting before I thought to check the interfaces file.

Once I checked the interfaces file I realized that my changes had worked properly, but "eth0" wasn't added to the "auto" line so there was no way it would ever start. I manually added eth0 to the line, saved, then re-stating the networking script in /etc/init.d and everything work just fine. I have included the resulting "interfaces" file below as it was saved.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
address 10.10.10.95
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.10.10.1

With my modification:

auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
address 10.10.10.95
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.10.10.1

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

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