Apperently the mathematica kernal needs to use its own special protocall through sockets to get to the cpu.
I was told to ping, to test whether or not networking was installed properly. I have ppp tcp/ip netdummy selected in the debian 2.0.33 kernal config. I will be using ppp to connect to a university unix system..though I havent got it configured right yet. ////////I do not have /etc/init.d/network file to edit./////////////// I can't ping anything. ping 8686 and other random sockets produce error messages; invalid parrameter ping: sockets: ping 127.0.0.1, ping "mymachinename or hostname" produce network unreachable as ping runs. pinters to info or suggestion please.
