[plug] FTP problems not sure where to look.

[laurie anderson]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:14:51 +0800
James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In message <4025DD4D.6080609 at aijv.com.au>
> on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:55:09PM +0800, anderson wrote:
> > Sid
> [...]
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> > SIOCSIINETMASK: No such device
> > SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
> > eth0: ERROR: while getting interface flags: No such device
> > eth0: ERROR: while getting interface flags: No such device
> 
> This might be the same problem as was discussed on this list in November
> 2003 (took a while to track down the problem). If you have a package
> called "inetutils-tools" installed, then install "net-tools" instead
> (remove inetutils-tools). Before you do that, you can test whether this
> is the problem by "disabling" /usr/bin/ifconfig in some way (e.g. moving
> it temporarily to /tmp) and then trying to bring your network up again.
>
> 
  James,
  Did a find / -name '*inetutils-tools*' nothing found
  Did a find / -name '*net-tools*'
  Net-tools is installed
  
  Camerom suggested, do a 'dmesg | grep ^eth', which I did, got absolutely nothing.

  Interesting to say the least.

  Laurie
  PS will have a look at the November plug list.