us network and Uuntu 8.10 - is there a better way?

Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 13:26:26 CET 2008


More updates.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> wrote:
> For now, I'm back to the manual method.

Today there were (X)ubuntu updates for NetworkManager and more. After
these updates (which included a necessary restart), even the manual
method doesn't work anymore.
tingo at kg-home:~$ ifconfig usb0
usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 12:ed:86:b0:6c:4c
          inet6 addr: fe80::10ed:86ff:feb0:6c4c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:936 (936.0 B)

tingo at kg-home:~$ sudo ifconfig usb0 down
[sudo] password for tingo:
tingo at kg-home:~$ ifconfig usb0
usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 12:ed:86:b0:6c:4c
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:936 (936.0 B)

tingo at kg-home:~$ sudo ifconfig usb0 up
tingo at kg-home:~$ ifconfig usb0
usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 12:ed:86:b0:6c:4c
          inet6 addr: fe80::10ed:86ff:feb0:6c4c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1174 (1.1 KB)

Sigh...
Has anybody tested IPv6 between their machine and a Neo FreeRunner (or 1973)?
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen




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