[ltp] F10 update smashes ethernet

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---- Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote: 
> 
> 
> 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
That's the major problem, something changes it back to 192.168.1.122
> 
> Also, check that you have no firewalling or hotplugging daemons
none
 At a 
> guess, the gnome or KDE network manager may also be at fault.
> 
> Richard
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