On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried 'ifup > > -a' to see what would happen. Came back 'ifup command unknown'. > > its in /sbin so you either need the full path, or do it as root (it > won't work as non-root anyway). > > A
Silly me! Of course it's installed and works if you use root! It was late and I was tired! I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian and the working Xubuntu and get identical results. /etc/resolv.conf gives identical results on both boots. If I ping the IP name (as given on my set-up instructions - 'phone.coop') in either Xubuntu or Debian I also get identical results - 'Destination Net Unreachable'. And yet, Xubuntu works perfectly - not using the Gnome desktop but the Xfce desktop - whereas Debian - using Gnome - fails to access the network. I come to the conclusion that there is something about Gnome that my setup doesn't like because I seem to remember when I first installed SuSE a couple of years ago I had the same problem on Gnome but it worked perfectly on KDE. I stayed with KDE. Now I want to try Debian. I like it - if only I can get the network working. -- Regards Pete Redwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
