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Author: Lisa Kachold
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Subject: Re: Problems with wifi
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Mark Phillips <>wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Lisa Kachold <>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Matt Graham <>wrote:
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>>> From: Lisa Kachold <>
>>> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>> >> and it still beeps.
>>>
>>> It's a crapshoot whether there's a volume control on the old speaker
>>> on some machines. If you know you're not going to use the old
>>> speaker support, you can just rmmod the pcspkr module and then
>>> move that module out of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ . I don't even
>>> build that module, but I always build a custom kernel....
>>>
>>> > Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>>> > Hmmm, it appears to have an IPv6 address
>>> > (Are you doing teredo tunneling on your network? Nevermind!)
>>>
>>> It looks like the 802.11 card's trying to associate with an access
>>> point but is not getting anywhere. I suppose you could try
>>> "iwconfig eth1" when it's up and reproduce that for us, or see
>>> what you get when you do "ps auxw | grep dhc" which should tell
>>> you whether dhcpcd or dhclient is running on eth1.
>>>
>>
>> Security Moment:
>> Yes, that's BAD! It's flapping and evidently he doesn't want it up.
>> It's better not to have both networks up, unless needed since that allows
>> access more easily for WEP cracking and then sidejacking.
>> <hack> Someone could..well, I don't need to describe the bloody
>> situation, it's all there in any autopsy? </hack>
>> end Security Moment
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>> Debian uses the /etc/sysconfig tree rather than the rc.d.
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>> *So the solution is simply configuring the rest of the networking
>> configs:*
>>
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> Sounds like a great plan....errr....I don't have an /etc/sysconfig and I
> can't find any ifcfg-eth1 or eth0 on my system.
>


Yes, it's the interface file (which you already posted). Blow away yours and
recreate. Be sure you do not have any strange characters, UTF8 type,or
ALT255 null characters, tabs etc. I have seen debian systems flag
interfaces with problems with the initialization files. Other reasons for
interface flapping can be due to kernel drivers, check your dmesg file for
clues?

You can debug one you like for your BOTH UP configuration, and move it
between the ETHERNET ONLY configuration.

Refer to this link:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/


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> narwhale:/home/mark# ls /etc/sys*
> /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/syslog.conf
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> /etc/sysctl.d:
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> narwhale:/home/mark# locate ifcfg
> narwhale:/home/mark#
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> Perhaps Debian testing puts this in another location?
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> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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>> Copy the original settings to backup file and make the changes below.
>> Don't forget to restart networking after making the changes.
>>
>> # cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1
>>
>> DEVICE=eth1
>> ONBOOT=no
>> BOOTPROTO=none
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>> IPADDR=192.168.0.1
>> USERCTL=no
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> TYPE=Ethernet
>> IPV6INIT=no
>>
>> DEVICE=eth0
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> BOOTPROTO=none
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>> IPADDR=10.0.0.1
>> USERCTL=yes
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> TYPE=Ethernet
>> IPV6INIT=no
>>
>> You want onboot no and ipv6init no, as well as userctl per your use.
>>
>> DEVICE=eth1
>> IPADDR=192.168.0.1
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>> NETWORK=192.168.0.255
>> # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian,
>> # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example)
>> BROADCAST=192.255.255.255
>> ONBOOT=no
>> NAME=eth1
>>
>>>
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