I am using a laptop mostly offline. Sometimes, after startup, I wish to connect to the network/Internet. After plugging in the network cable I issue the command ifconfig eth0 up, with no error message appearing. The command ifconfig seemingly shows that the interface is up and running. This is not the case though.
The only way then to access the network is to reboot my computer.
On my distribution, Xandrows, I have a button to connect/disconnect the network and it works fine, but I want to be able to do this from the command line.

Can anybody tell me what I have done wrong?

Thanks!

twallstr

how does your interface configured? (DHCP or static IP)
what error message ifconfig shows?
how do you connected to the NET?


PS definetly, rebooting your mashine is not nessesery

After Connecting the cable try using the command "dhcpcd". I usually don't have to give any arguments.

Let me know if that works out for you

You say you have a button and it works fine, so why are you rebooting?

From what you have described, the ifconfig command is working normally. It can bring up an interface, but that is not the same as establishing as connection through it- those are two separate things.

As the other guys said/asked, we need to know how you are connecting. If you are using DHCP, you can do this as root, and it will establish a connection for you (if you have the dhcpcd client. If not, find out what client you have, they all have similar arguments.....)

Absolutely correct. This isn't *doze!

The reason the network starts after a boot is that the startup script that brings up your network runs. You could run that any time, if you knew what it was. But I suspect, as everyone else, that it's just DCHP client needing to be started.

I am using a static IP address, and I do NOT get an error message when using the ifconfig command.
I connect to the Internet via cable access, and all commands are performed as root.
As I said before my Xandrows network button works nicely to bring up the connection (or kill it) but I am just curious how to do it through the command line.

Thanks!

twallstr

Hi,

I don't use Xandrows. You should be able restart the network using the init that is run during the boot.

Basically you could just use;

Your system should now work.

In Slack we just;

This will use the configuration file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf that has the network information. I'm sure you have the same means to init the network. I'm not sure about your tree configuration. Check your /etc to find the startup scripts.