Dear debian users, could someone put me out of my trying-to-get-online misery please?
I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network. The network settings I am using work under windows on my other partition, and worked on another machine running debian with a 2.2.xx kernel. I am running kernel 2.4.22. If this is unwise for someone as linux-incompetent as me, my excuse is that it seemed like I needed it to have support for my ATI radeon 9600 graphics card (of which more on another post i'm afraid) and my SiS 900 fast ethernet card. dmesg includes SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xx800 ifup eth0 gives eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex as does going through dpkg-reconfigure etherconf (whether I choose dhcp or not) which all sounded quite positive to me. However, all my attempts to ssh or ping or lynx fail with complaints about name resolution, even using an IP address rather than host.domain, e.g: > ping arizona.princeton.edu [in my domain] ping: unknown host arizona.princeton.edu > ping harper.uchicago.edu ping: unknown host harper.uchicago.edu > ping 128.135.12.7 [harper's IP address] PING 128.135.12.7 (128.135.12.7): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: write 128.135.12.7 64 chars, ret = -1 ............. ............. I tried > route add default gw 140.180.128.1 which gave SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable and by the way > ifdown eth0 cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory Does that matter? There seemed to be some posts in the archives from people having similar problems with recent kernels, but no obvious resolution that I came accross. However I expect it's much more my fault than the kernel's. cheers, Dan ---------------------------------- Dan Davison davisonATuchicago.edu http://home.uchicago.edu/~davison/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
