On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 05:03, Marshal Wong wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 01:41, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 03:28, Marshal Wong wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > > > When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get > > > > the message: > > > > > > > > sendto: Network is unreachable > > > > > > > > when I try to ping another machine on my network. Using ifconfig, I > > > > noticed that eth0 had no IP address assigned. So I did > > > > > > > > ifconfig eth0 down > > > > > > > > and then > > > > > > > > ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > > > > > > > > At that point, ping worked. So it seems as if dhcp is not working. Is > > > > there something in the kernel configuration that is required to make > > > > dhcp work? > > > > > > > > I am still not able to browse the web. I get the message "Could not > > > > connect to host ..." no matter what URL I use. > > > > > > > > > > I've noticed that dhcp doesn't change any configurations. If I run > > > dhclient, it spews out the information for the dhcp, but that's it. It > > > doesn't change any network settings. It's been that way for a long time > > > now, but I've just worked around it... Good to know that someone else > > > is having the problem... > > > > > > Anyways, to help you with the "Could no connect to host..." problem, you > > > probably need to add a default gateway to your routing table. > > > > > > Check if the default gateway is reasonable using > > > > > > # route (as root. Haha!) > > > > > > If not, then > > > > > > # route add default gw <ip.address.of.gateway> > > > > That should not be necessary. ifup should do that for you, if your > > /etc/network/interfaces has this in it: > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > Right, it should. But it doesn't on my computer, for some reason. At > least it didn't when I was using DHCP. I haven't tested it recently. > > It could be a powerpc thing though...
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