Thanks to everyone who replied. I didn't want to weigh down my first post with a lot of info that might have been irrelevant (such as all the things I did that didn't work). To supply the information that was asked for, however: /etc/network/interfaces has the following: first, it says the connection is static, which it isn't, it's DHCP. It says the address is 192.168.1.1 (The Mac OS, on which the connection is working fine, says 192.168.1.100 [or, sometimes, 101]). netmask is 255.255.255.0 (Mac agrees), network is 192.168.1.0 (Mac says router address is 192.168.1.1); broadcast is 192.168.1.255, and gateway is 192.168.1.2. So, do I need to rewrite this file to make it correspond as much as possible to what the Mac is telling me? Especially about DHCP? "ifconfig" (I guess naturally) gives most of this same info. "route" gives only localnet (which /etc/networks defines as 92.168.1.0), "dmesg" does have a line in it: eth0 warning ! Unsupported BCM5400 PHY DNS is not the problem, it won't reach anybody (except it will ping 192.168.1.1) numerically either. When I try to do "/sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0" I get 'invalid argument". "add default gw..." gives "lookup failure". Something I read says to rewrite the /etc/init.d/network file. Unfortumately, there is no such file. Did I cover everything? One (hopefully simple) question I'm still left with is: how do internet apps, from ping to Mozilla, know I'm not using ppp/ttyX any more but eth0 over a network? I'm *not* using ppp, am I? (certainly pppconfig doesn't seem to know what an eth0 is) And, last but not least, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks, Mike P.S. a new kernel is interesting (and may, of course, even prove to be necessary), but a bit complicated given my boot set up. Needs to be a separate subject, though, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
