[plug] FTP problems not sure where to look.

[James Devenish]

In message <20040210110718.5bc970ba.vautin at aijv.com.au>
on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:07:18AM +0800, laurie anderson wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:26:50 +0800
> Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> > Maybe.  It might also be due to the driver for eth0 not being loaded.
> > Does `dmesg | grep ^eth' say anything interesting?  e.g. a good
> > indication that this is /not/ the problem would be something like:
> > 
> > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8808000, 00:40:f4:87:a1:ae, IRQ 5
> > eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
> > eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1

I think it was established that there are no lines starting with "eth0"
in Laurie's dmesg. So, it is possible that the driver is not being
loaded. I advised that this was out of my area. Laurie: what machine has
this problem? (Eg. what motherboard / network cards -- maybe Google has
some information about your network interface? Have you ever had a
working Ethernet interface with Linux on that computer -- maybe someone
remembers something from back them? Maybe a Knoppix CD could help? Just
stabbing in the dark!) Also, I'm not sure if you ever showed the
contents of /etc/network/interfaces -- is it nearly identical to the
configuration that works in your other computer?

>   NB: the machine running Sarge show's
>     search ucc.gu.uwa.au
>     nameserver 130.95.13.9
>     nameserver 135.95.128.2

By the way, ucc.gu.uwa.au is not a valid domain (not that it has
anything to do with your immediate problem).