Kevin,
Seems like you just need to set a 'default route' is all. do a 'man route'
for more info. Sounds like you have an excellent grip on debian too - good
work!
tatah
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 10:50, Kevin Stokes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm windoze guy trying to install Debian, and I've read How-To's 'till
> I'm blue in the face, but I'm stymied at the moment, and I sure would
> appreciate some help or a link to a HOWTO to help troubleshoot this.
>
> I've Debian potatoe vanilla installed to the point where I've created the
> root and user accounts, and then it wants the APT data source for loading
> other things. I've installed from stuff downloaded off the net, so I
> choose HTTP or FTP as my source.
>
> However, I can't get my network stuff to work. Specifically:
>
>
>
> I got my ne module aliased and loaded in the /etc/modules
>
> It looks like it might be working, because lsmod returns something
> ok-looking.
>
> In /etc/network/interfaces, I put:
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
>
> I reboot, then at the command line I do a 'ifconfig eth0 up', and it
> accepts this ok, and if I type 'ifconfig', it lists it there and all looks
> ok.
>
> But I still cannot ping anything but localhost without getting 'Network
> unreachable' errors.
>
> I looked at /var/log/messages, and didn't see anything bad in there,
> except for a message at the very end like:
>
> ds: no sockets drivers loaded! ; I don't know if this is ok, or bad.
>
> The HOWTO's are filled with information about setting up this or that,
> but I couldn't find anything that helps people who don't know any unix to
> troubleshoot anything like this.
>
> Kevin Stokes
> Pie in the Sky Software
> www.pieskysoft.com
>
>
> PS. My thanks to Rick Commo and Andrew Dixon for helping me earlier!
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