-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 03:30:52PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:31:28AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > My abject apologies for the delay in this reply. just got back in town > and am just catching up on my email.
No worries. Mail is asyncronous. In my eyes, its biggest asset. [my whine about missing subject] > I know but I hit the send key too soon. Sorry. Happens :-) [...] > > > with DCP failed. > > > > This is probably DHCP. That means that the laptop tries to ask in > > the local network for an IP address [...] > > Question: is your Thinkpad connected to the local net via a > > network cable? Or via WLAN? > > Ethernet cable directly to the modem. No router (yet). > > > > > Open a console. What is the output of the command > > > /sbin/ifconfig > > Could you paste it here? > > root@localhost:/home/holtzm# /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:cc:b6:06:8f > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) > Interrupt:20 Memory:f2500000-f2520000 This means that eth0 hasn't an IP address assigned. This is consistent with DHCP failing. Your laptop sends a DHCP out and expects some answer (from the "modem" or from the network infrastructure behind it). No answer came, probably. > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 This is the "local" interface. It's always there. It doesn't correspond to any hardware. For our quest, you can safely ignore that. > > > I was given 3 options. [...] There is no way forward until we sort out how to assign an IP address to your interface (be it via DHCP or manually). Can you describe this "modem" a bit more? It may well be that it isn't talking regular IP but needs PPPoE[1] (PPP over Ethernet) or some such. Regards [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPPoE - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgPIwEACgkQBcgs9XrR2kboaACdF9C3QSBHrEvwe8GB5oISsMYk ec8An2vu8J6veRpFQVhcI27rqdkdKHAq =iYvt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
