[Klug-general] Loss of Internet link

linuxgirlie linuxgirlie at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 14:30:50 BST 2005


Reboot the machine!!!

;D

Jo

On 8/23/05, frank attwood <frank_attwood at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> have you tried going into the control center, deleting the network
> interface, reboot the machine and then go back into the control centre and
> going through the setup a new network interface wizard?
> 
> dan
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> From: <i>Michael Rentell
> <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com></i><br>Reply-To: <i>Kent Linux User
> Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk></i><br>To: <i>Kent
> Linux User Group - General Topics
> <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk></i><br>Subject: <i>[Klug-general] Loss of
> Internet link</i><br>Date: <i>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:03:23
> +0100</i><br>>Good day all,<br>>This is, no doubt, an elementary
> question but I have a small problem <br>>and I wondered if someone could
> give me a steer.<br>>I have Mandrake 10.1 with KDE and Gnome GUIs
> available and it all <br>>works very well. Until recently the KDE
> start-up connected my <br>>broadband connection to the Internet and
> worked fine.<br>>Then I thought I would switch to Gnome out of interest.
> Did that - <br>>no problems. However, now that I've gone back to KDE my
> GUI system <br>>starts but the Internet is not connected.<br>>It is
> only a 2 minute task to click <br>>system/configure/(password)/Networks
> and start the USBNet driver for <br>>my Ambit cable modem (I'm with
> NTL-but you'd guessed that from my <br>>email address hadn't you?) but I
> would like to avoid that if <br>>possible.<br>>I am sure there must be
> a text configuration file somewhere I can <br>>edit as Root to put it all
> back to as it was before I fiddled with <br>>Gnome.<br>>If anyone has
> a suggestion or two, that would be very welcome.<br>>Thanks for your
> attention.<br>>Mike Rentell in
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