Yes, the problem of the network connection not working baffles me. I used to access the net(internet) to get packages(using debians "dselect" program) and then I had the problems with X, I used to reboot the system without doing it the normal way(shutdown or init 0 commands) by turning off the power switch. And now there is this problem of not connecting to the net.
Let me ask something, I am connecting to the internet via some servers(DNS, webserver etc.,?? on this intranet, which has predominantly UNIX machines that run servers. And I also notice that there is a inetd, http server(httpd), and a (domain??) name server(named) that Debian starts up on this machine. I believe I dont really need these. any ideas on how to reomve these?? and connect to the network ?? I am using a 10bT PCMCIA ethernet card. and the card seems to be working fine. Thanks for the display manager bit, and the info on how to start-up X using the startx script. I did eactly that(removed the symlink that started up the xdm process) and then edited a .xinitrc file to include some xterm (clients??) and it works, fine. but there is no way to get a connection to the net!! Thanks, Praveen Kamath On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Heather wrote: > > When I do the Ctrl+Alt+F1, go back to the console mode, and work, none of > > the network functionality seems to work! i cant do a ftp or http etc., > > Does this mean that you have the network working when you're in X? What > are you using to be able to tell? >
