[TriLUG] NICe kNowledge to have...

[Bryan Kelly]

Gang,

I have a couple of questions about a nuisance that I haven't been able 
to solve. First, let me mention that I have Roadrunner access on my 
laptop, running basically RH6.1.

Issue #1, the cable that plugs into the NIC comes out fairly easilty. 
Sometime when it is out I cannot get the modem to restore the 
connection. Normally, I just lauch netcfg as root and deactivate 
followed by reactivating the ppp connection on eth0. But sometimes it 
doesn't work. I  believe netcfg basically runse some network scripts in 
the /etc/*/ directory. When this doesn't work, what is the next thing to 
try? If tried ifconfig eth0 down and then back up again and I have tried 
to get pump to renew the address, but neither seem to have any effect. 
The only think I know to do is to shutdown and then reboot which brings 
me to the second question.

Issue#2, following the scenario above, I shutdown and the sequence 
begins, only it hangs when it gets to ...shutting down eth0... for many 
minutes. How can I get around this? cancel
this part of the shutdown, ect?


bryan