Weird connection problem...

[geniuz]

Hello everyone, this is my first post in these forums...
I've been using Debian for quite some time now and I solved most of my problems just by googling...however this problem chases me since I first installed debian.

First note is that my internet connection in itself workes fine, the problem is it never workes on boot while it's always enabled...to get it working I have to typr:

network-admin

Here it list my connections...which in my case is one wired connection with DHCP. As usual network-admin shows the connection is enabled...however I can't connect to anything.

To get it working, in network-admin I have to disable the connection simply by unchecking the box in front of it and than immediately enable it again by checking the box again. After this my connection is fine.

And that is not my only problem...because I don't have a connection while booting, my NTP server can't connect too so my system time is wrong too.
So after "resetting" my connection I also have to issue the command:

dpkg-reconfigure ntp

My question is how to solve this because it's driving me crazy having to routine these commands every time I turn on my computer...

Here is my ifconfig output:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:db:70:41:b8
inet addr:192.168.1.11 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:dbff:fe70:41b8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3068 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3026 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3250172 (3.0 MiB) TX bytes:397836 (388.5 KiB)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xec00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 B) TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)

And my IP adress is:

81.205.126.5

[Dapper Dan]

Hi geniuz. I'm gonna "bump" your post because there should be a fairly easy answer for it. I haven't used Debian in a long time, but some of or mods use it and should be able to help once they see this thread. I'm sure it's simply a configuration problem -- editing a file somewhere. I'd be hesitant to offer advice further because straight Debian does things differently than I'm used to.

[geniuz]

Yes I agree it's probably some stupid config file messing it up...but the problem is I couldn't find any other resources on the net explaining my problem. You guys are my last hope actually, if I can't fix this I'm probably gonna install ubuntu or gentoo...

[Dapper Dan]

Are you using Gnome? Kde? XFCE? I know there are "gui" network utilities you can use with each.

[geniuz]

I'm using XFCE with gnome libraries, network-admin for instance is part of the package gnome-system-tools

[Dapper Dan]

I've been digging around in Ubuntu. I found some network files to configure in /etc/network. See the file "interfaces" to set up device, ip, subnet, gateway and all that. I think Debian uses an init file in /etc/init.d called "network" to set these parameters at boot. Also in /etc/network are "if-up" and "if-down" files I'm groping through the dark here, but it's worth looking into. Maybe devils_casper will have a look at this thread. He uses Debian and can get you on the right track in no time.

[geniuz]

Ok, well thanks a lot for your effort and fast responce...I know about the /etc/network folder and I tried to change a few things in them nothing helped though and I don't want to completely mess up my network.
Anyway I believe I'll just have to be patient

[Manchunian]

What did you change in your /etc/network file? Perhaps you could paste it here?

[geniuz]

Well.../etc/network is a folder wich holds only one file that can be modified: interfaces, here is how it looks in my case:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).



# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


auto eth0

[Dapper Dan]

As a reference, here's mine from Ubuntu 7.10.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.101
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

auto eth1
#iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
#iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
#iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
#iface wlan0 inet dhcp