Quick background- running 12.04 on a Revo 1600 with a USB NIC. Only package I've installed (beyond the apt-get update && apt-get upgrade) was to try out Langstron's QOrbiter. I started with 30/6/2015's 14.04 install, but could not get the NIC's to work. Tried a couple other dates and settled on 14/6/2015's 12.04 install. I am pretty sure my NIC's didn't work out of the box with this one either- but somehow I was able to get connected enough to install QOrbiter. Shut it down for the night and moved the box to the basement.
Skipping steps to the Problem & Solution-
On boot (or manual /etc/init.d/networking restart) I got an error about an incomplete line. Lines 24-26 of the following are incorrect and get reverted back to this on reboot:
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# Loopback interface
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iface lo inet loopback
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# IPv4 network interfaces
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# --- External NIC ---
iface eth0 inet dhcp
pre-up sysctl -q -e -w net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1
# --- Internal NIC ---
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.80.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up sysctl -q -e -w net.ipv6.conf.eth1.disable_ipv6=1
# DNS Settings for Internal Net
dns-nameservers 192.168.80.1
dns-search LinuxMCE
# --- ---
iface inet static
address
netmask
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# Activating interfaces
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auto eth0 eth1 lo
Simply adding # before lines 24 through 26, saving and running "/etc/init.d/networking restart" gets my NIC's running. (For ease of reference, here are lines 23 through 26:
# --- ---
iface inet static
address
netmask
