[Sheflug] Re: Debian Groan

[Richard Ibbotson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex


> First off, it completely broke the ethernet networking, utterly,
> completely. (Yes, I realise it's a testing kernel, but let's ignore
> that for this flame ;). Usually, when I 'ifconfig', I see lo and
> eth0 as usual and as expected. This time, however, I was also
> presented with a 'tap0'. This appears to be ethertap (according to
> Google :), which I don't need and certainly don't want. One
> 'ifconfig tap0 down' and a couple of #'s added to
> /etc/modutils/pcmcia later and the blasted thing was gone. Of
> course, networking immediately started working again.


I've been looking at a whole week of this on the Debian laptop list.  
Very depressing :(

Thanks


-- 
Richard
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