Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-08 Thread Shawn McMahon
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Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-08 Thread Brian W. Carver
I finally got my entire home lan on the internet. For me the crucial steps were getting the dhcp.conf file figured out, having the correct /etc/network/interfaces file, and then the rest was shockingly easy if I had just known to do it first. That is, to get the linux box "server" online I ju

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-08 Thread Steve Juranich
I just did a fresh install of potato r5 on a new computer and had similar problems. My problem was that the driver for my NIC (a netgear FA310TX) seemed to be buggy. I built a new kernel (2.4.18) and was able to connect (and I moved right to sid). Did you have any kernel upgrades recently? Or

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-07 Thread Andy Saxena
Brian W. Carver wrote: >Your assumptions below are correct. > >I am using potato 2.2 r5, but this problem started when a dselect session >went bad >and I believe that I may now have some sid and some woody packages. > >I know I have a new xdm interface because it looks totally different when >I b

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Looks like an ADSL connection. Since I don't use ADSL, please apply salt as necessary below... On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:30:25PM -0800, Brian W. Carver wrote: > I boot up and first thing I type: ifconfig > I get: > > [ output of ifconfig snipped. No mention of eth0 ] > > So eth0 is not UP. Then

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Jason Chambers
Brian W. Carver wrote: Your assumptions below are correct. I am using potato 2.2 r5, but this problem started when a dselect session went bad and I believe that I may now have some sid and some woody packages. I know I have a new xdm interface because it looks totally different when I boot

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Brian W. Carver
Your assumptions below are correct. I am using potato 2.2 r5, but this problem started when a dselect session went bad and I believe that I may now have some sid and some woody packages. I know I have a new xdm interface because it looks totally different when I boot up now. I had the internet

Re: No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:30:25PM -0800, Brian W. Carver wrote: > I boot up and first thing I type: ifconfig > I get: > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:56:2E:E9 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX

No Internet Connection (DHCP)

2002-04-06 Thread Brian W. Carver
I boot up and first thing I type: ifconfig I get: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:56:2E:E9 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped: