On 17 Feb, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can the other machines in your LAN ping 10.0.0.6 ? yes, no problem
> A few days ago, upon routine (daily) upgrading with Synaptic, I > discovered that network-manager (which previously was not working > correctly on this machine) was obtaining a DHCP address from my > firewall/router (SmoothWall), and was not using my specified static > address (192.168.1.13). all i could get working was the local-link connection, so I've removed network-manager and all related bits. > After removing network-manager, I discovered that the ethernet > interface on the motherboard was being used, whereas heretofore I had > been using a PCI ethernet card. (When I first got the machine, Debian > did not have a driver for the interface on the motherboard; the > easiest solution was to plug in an ethernet card.) So I removed the > ethernet card, and expected that the interface on the motherboard > would be eth0. However, it did not respond to eth0 or to eth1 -- but > by experimenting, I found that it works if I call it eth2. I have another card installed because i wanted 1G networking rather thatn the 10/100 on the motherboard. Both ifaces have had the same quercky problem bit the onboard one is now disabled in the bios. The 1G PCI (Dynamode Giga Networking) card seems to respond correctly, it just appears that dns isn't working properly (to me anyway) > -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
