Raspberry Pi - network issues

Hi All,

After using the Pi for a couple of years without any problems, last night during boot up it threw out an error;-

Message from Desktop: Machine startup has not completed successfully: ‘Route: Add Net default: Gateway 192.168.1.1: Network is unreachable’

Retry just throws out the same error, cancel takes me through to the desktop, but without any networking available.

I did think, hardware issue, so changed the Pi for another, same problem, so software issue, plus the lights on the Pi are shining like it’s Christmas indicating that it’s connected to the network OK.

Went into !Configure, Network to see if it’d lost a setting or two, click on Internet, then Interfaces, no interfaces detected.

Checked to see if any modules were unplugged, and a few were;- Net, BootNet, Freeway, ShareFS and DHCP.

RMReInit’d them, rebooted, same error, the modules are now listed as ‘dormant’ for Net, Freeway and ShareFS, with BootNet and DHCP active.

Any clues as to what to do to regain networking?

regards

Kev

No recent ROM update?

I think that is the error message you get if you have DHCP enabled and have an entry in ‘Routing’. It should be blank!

It would be nice if this was “fixed”, i.e. selecting DHCP would either clear or honour the values.
Or provide various options for dhcp, the default one clearing all IP related stuff.
If anyone has the time….

Thing is, it’s pretty common to want to have a combination of dynamic IP and fixed DNS. (When you want to use google DNS to stop horrible ISP-redirects, for example)

I’d have thought the best option would be:

Full DHCP (nothing editable).
When checked, you can have:
Override Gateway
Override DNS
When full DHCP is not checked, you get manual config options.

There’s also the option for DHCP with requested IP, but then you have to deal with what happens when that IP is refused, so not sure there’s any need for that.