Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Andrei Popescu wrote: > avahi-daemon recommends libnss-mdns > libnss-mdns recommends zeroconf > > The link is pretty weak, but it still gets installed on a lot of > systems, because aptitude installs recommends by default. Although thankfully recommends are ignored on initial installs. The recom

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hi Andrei, >>it seems enough people do an install and have this problem that the >>answer has become know to the debian-user list. Now I know very little >>about zeroconf but it seems to me that it

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 > > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the > > > s

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP > > address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some > > infor

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP >>address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some >>information - thanks...(maybe this is related to I

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP > address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some > information - thanks...(maybe this is related to IPv6 ?) These addresses are usu

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 26.01.2007 at 11:08 -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:20:F3:7A:03 > inet addr:169.254.128.152 Bcast:169.254.255.255 > Mask:255.255.0.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::213:20ff:fef3:7a03/64 Scope:L

New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Just installed Etch from the RC1 net install CD. Did standard install, updated everything to the latest etch packages from the Debian repository, and then installed xorg + kde. Everything *works fine*, but something is different about the network configuration that I don't understand, and hoping so