Debian: I upgraded the dist and everything is messed!

[smp]

Well.. I updated my sources list to woody everything and did a apt-get dist upgrade and everything seemed to work okay.
Next day I decided to reboot the machine....

big mistake.
My LAN card didn't come back up on reboot and my PS2 port is broken so I couldn't log into the machine from my lan, or from console. I had to go to a friends and ssh into it from there .
At least the DHCP client was still working and it got back online.
Now I notice that I can't upload anything VIA FTP and my talk daemon doesn't work.

What do I do to make this better? I guess I could just put a "ifconfig eth1 up 192.168.0.1" in a startup script and do it like that, but I don't want to, because I know there is a machanism in there that is supposed to be doing that that isn't.
Anyone?
Thanks.

 

[Nothinman]

Did you change the kernel during this?

What kind of connection do you have to the 'net that one card comes up and other doesn't?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Did you change the kernel during this? >>



Should you change the kernel? I havent seen many docs on this (yes I looked, but sometimes I feel blind ).

Are there two different network cards in the machine?

 

[smp]

There are two network cards in the machine, it is running IPchains and is serving as my gateway here at home.

I did not upgrade the kernel.

I have rogers@home .. cable DHCP
so one card is LAN (192.168.0.1) and the other is DHCP
the internal LAN doesn't come up anymore on boot :\
and neither does LO

I just put a symlink in rc2.d S99 for it
maybe 99 is too late?

this is the contents of the file;

ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.0.1
ifconfig LO up 127.0.0.1

These are the commands that I ran after managing to get back in the machine (from teh friends house)
and everything was working okay after that
so I figured if I just put that in startup it's cool.

I'm probably doing something stupid though

 

[smp]

I'm using postfix BTW and it doen't look like it's working .. anyone know how I can start it manually?

 

[Nothinman]

You should use /etc/network/interfaces to configure your network interfaces. Also make sure /etc/modules contains the names of any modules you need loaded at bootup, like NIC drivers.

 

[smp]

Yup.. that's just how it was working before. /etc/modules is unchanged and so is /etc/networking/interfaces

I don't get it.

Oh yeah!!! Postfix is working .. that was dumbness on my part, disregard that.