[Gllug] broadband connection in Lenny

Chris Bell chrisbell at 3966.ukfsn.org
Tue Aug 25 09:28:12 UTC 2009


On Tue 25 Aug, Richard Huxton wrote:
> 
> john gennard wrote:
> >>   
> > Thanks. I've now solved the problem by re-running the installer and not
> > going to sleep part of the way through. I had hoped to avoid doing this
> > and wish I could have remembered the instruction to re-run the missing
> > section alone.
> 
> I'm not sure there is a tool to reconfigure the network settings without 
>   editing /etc.
> 
> Normally you'd do "dpkg-reconfigure <package>" but I can't see a 
> relevant package to reconfigure. I'm guessing the installer actually 
> configures half a dozen different packages at once (dhcp, dns, 
> interfaces etc).
> 

   And some of those are ignored or reset if something like avahi is around.

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