On Monday 21 May 2007 19:54:15 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:25:38AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > 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. > > well, I know this isn't helpful, but its my experience that gnome > doesn't like it if you mess with networking from the CLI. Its either > let gnome do it gnome's way, or get gnome out of the way. I don't > really use gnome so can't give you specific guidance, but I would > recommend you get all the gnome networking stuff out of the way. THat > means NetworkManager and maybe avahi too. THen a basic networking > setup should be straight forward. > > The other alternative is to get someone who knows gnome better to > comment on the proper way to set it all up. > > A
Thanks Andrew I have a Xubuntu partition that works very well without Gnome but I would like to get to the bottom of why Debian/Gnome will not access the network on the other partition. Everything else is great. There must be a logical solution since other folks run Debian/Gnome quite happily. -- Regards Pete Redwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
