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OLinuXino Android / Linux boards and System On Modules => A10 => Topic started by: pfandfrei on April 04, 2014, 12:27:29 PM

Title: A10 LIME - can't enable network
Post by: pfandfrei on April 04, 2014, 12:27:29 PM
first of all: I'm a real beginner with debian

I got my A10 a few days ago and tried the image from here: https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A10-OLinuXino-LIME#Linux

Everything seems to work fine except network. I always get the message "the network connection has been disabled".
Tried to modify network at LXDE desktop => no success
Tried to modify /etc/network/interfaces => no success

After manual configuring eth0 in console the adapter is available, but I want to init eht0 at startup.

Any ideas what I can do?
Title: Re: A10 LIME - can't enable network
Post by: Lurch on April 04, 2014, 06:19:25 PM
What's in your /etc/network/interfaces file?
Are you using a fixed address or dhcp?
If dhcp, you should have something like:
   auto eth0
   iface eth0 inet dhcp

Does your gateway block unknown hardware address? Maybe it's not letting you connect?
You may also want to check the /etc/resolv.conf file. It should have the address of your gateway in it. By default it has probably the wrong subnet.
Title: Re: A10 LIME - can't enable network
Post by: pfandfrei on April 07, 2014, 12:13:10 PM
Sorry for the late answer, did not realise that there is no notification in this forum ...

Meanwhile I solved the problem with editing the NetworkManager.conf. I changed the 'managed = false' entry to 'managed = true' and everything is fine now.

Thanks for the reply.