thanks for the overwhelming response!! i am out of the university where they had the ethernet NIS etc ..but i learnt a lot over the week than over the past week there!! . and now I am facing problems with PCMCIA PPP)dial-up protocol).. when I try vwdial(or wvdial) i get an error saying that there was an input/output error.. but i remember that when i installed debian the modprobe detected the PCMCIA card modem right ... there are two PCMCIA cards on this laptop and one is a ethernet and the other is the modem ... now i have these questions ...
do I have to set-up any COM ports etc on which the modem is communicating ??or do I have to do any more configurations other than what the install script/program has done to configure PCMCIA dial-up(dial-out)??? any himts on this please!! thanks, praveen kamath On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Heather wrote: > > Hi all-- > > > > which is the file on Linux that I have to change so that the machine > > recognises the sub-net's DNS server, gateway. NIS server etc on linux?? is > > it the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/networks file?? > > > > any info on this?? > > dns servers are listed in /etc/resolv.conf > > NIS servers are something else entirely. If you have NIS at your site > then you surely have a sysadmin who maintains that for you, and it's > common to have a few other policies he wants to maintain which you should > follow to be a good citizen on your network. NIS does serve up hostnames, > but it also handles a lot more than that. NIS is uncommon except in > Solaris environments. > > > it looks like my machine is not able to connect to the network. and the > > PCMCIA ethernet card looks fine to me, I installed X and ran it, ever > > since the network problem has occured. I removed the link for the inetd, > > httpd, named daemons (that were installed when i installed debian) from > > the init.rc.2 (or 3??) > > 2 is the default debian runlevel. You can see it mentioned in /etc/inittab > > > and it appears that installing X has affected the network layer on this > > laptop. any suggestions on how to go about fixing this?? other than having > > to reinstall debian that is!! > > The symptoms are too vague. That you can't reach apt anymore, I guess I > can understand. with 'ifconfig -a' and 'route -n' results we could make > some guesses at your current network state. The file /etc/resolv.conf > should mention the IP address of a good name server... an example: > search starshine.org > nameserver 216.240.40.162 > nameserver 209.209.60.131 > nameserver 198.186.202.185 > > (in this case, that's something on my nearby network, something at my ISP, > and a trustable external site.) > > Did you upgrade pcmcia services by any chance? > > With notes from your sysadmin about what you are *supposed* to be allowed to > connect to, we might even be able to tell whether your bits can get there. > But if he or she has recently changed something about the network you attach > to, the problems might not be on your end. > > Now whether the local sysadmin would prefer you to be telling us about > your routes and ip configurations is another question, which we cannot > answer for you. > > * Heather Stern * star@ many places... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
