I have a dell laptop on which I have just performed a basic install of etch using netinstall, on which I installed xfce. (I did have gnome, but I needed to repartition, so i decided to try xfce.)
The problem is now with my networking At home, I use dhcp - no problem. When I bring the laptop to work, I use fixed ip addressing. I used to have a file which contained ifconfig eth1 XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW netmask 255.255.255.0 route add default gw XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1 cat "seach <domain>" >> /etc/resolv.conf cat "nameserver AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD" >> resolv.conf which I would simply sudo when I get to work and I got my static ip address networking to work. This does not work now - I can't ping out. When I run ifconfig at the command line, it gives me the correct ip address, and tells me that it is up. The /etc/network/interfaces file is auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp I did a very basic install – maybe something is missing. any ideas? John
