[PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

Paul Munday paulm at freegeek.org
Sun Aug 4 01:09:56 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 17:25 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:00:13 -0700
> Paul Munday <paulm at freegeek.org> dijo:
> 
> >On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 15:36 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >> On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:13:52 -0700
> >> Paul Munday <paulm at freegeek.org> dijo:
> >> 
> >> >On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 13:26 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >> >
> >> >does sudo dhclient eth0 do anything?
> >> 
> >> sudo dhclient eth0
> >> dhclient: error while loading shared libraries: libdns-export.so.88:
> >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >> 
> >> Does this mean I'm missing a file?
> >
> >This is the machine you were emailing about the other day?
> 
> Probably.
> 
> >I suspect a version mismatch...
> >
> >This might help:
> >
> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=284780
> 
> Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, all the solutions found by people
> there require installing packages. That is pretty tough without a
> network connection. Both my computers have bluetooth and they see each
> other, but I can't figure out how to get the laptop to connect to the
> desktop so it can use the desktop's net connection. And if it's a
> version mismatch that also sounds like installing packages is going to
> be required. :(

you might be able to manually configure the networking something like:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.125 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gateway 192.168.0.1

you will need to get the gateway from the working machine and guess an
ip not in use 

Paul  

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