[ltp] F10 update smashes ethernet

[Richard Neill]

bhaskins@chartermi.net wrote:
> ---- Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote: 
>>
>> bhaskins@chartermi.net wrote:
>>> Thanks for your reply David but I now find that even my wired connection
>>> is gone and in a very strange way.
>>> If I ping 192.168.1.1, 
>>> it says that it is pinging 192.168.122.1, fails, and
>>> then reports an error pinging 192.168.1.1
>>> What's up with that?
>>> I just booted up with the F10 live CD and all went well with that.
>>>
>> I suggest that you may want to check your firewall settings. If you have 
>> any firewalling enabled, turn it off, and see if the problem goes away.
>>
>> What do you get when you run:
>>    ifconfig
> The second line shows the internet address to be 192.168.1.121

What happens if you manually configure the internet address with:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.XXX.XXX  netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Also, check that you have no firewalling or hotplugging daemons. At a 
guess, the gnome or KDE network manager may also be at fault.

Richard