Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent said: So, post the complete contents of /etc/network/interfaces. Also post the output of "ifconfig". Also post the nic-related output of "lspci". And perhaps post the output of "lsmod". If you say so: The /etc/network/interfaces file as it currently stands

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent, Sorry, I should have included this question in the previous post, and forgot: Will pump run at all if dhcp is not enabled in /etc/network/interfaces? Because eth0 will *not* come up at all with dhcp enabled there. So pump is not normally being called up anyway, right? (Since eth0 is

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent said: >So, post the complete contents of /etc/network/interfaces. >Also post the output of "ifconfig". >Also post the nic-related output of "lspci". >And perhaps post the output of "lsmod". If you say so: The /etc/network/interfaces file as it currently stands (the only way it will come u

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent, Thanks yet again. Sorry if I was not clear. I *did* run: ps ax | grep -E 'dhcp|pump' exactly that way. What it produced in response was, exactly: 233pts/0 S 0:00 grep -E dhcp|pump I don't know what that means, but if I am understanding you correctly, it means pu

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent West wrote: >You need single quotes around the 'dhcp|pump' part: > >>ps ax | grep -E 'dhcp|pump' >> >> 215 ?S 0:00 pump -i eth0 > >If you still don't get something like the above, then pump is not running. > >It's _probably_ some sort of configuration problem, but just to >

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent, Thank you again for your response. To answer your questions: Do you have other machines getting dhcp addresses on this LAN? Or better yet, can you throw a Knoppix CD in the computer and see if it gets an address? (There may be some sort of hardware/cabling/networ

re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-20 Thread mmissett
Kent, Thank you again for your response. To answer your questions: >Do you have other machines getting dhcp >addresses on this LAN? Or better >yet, can you throw a Knoppix CD in the >computer and see if it gets an >address? (There may be some sort of >hardware/cabling/network issue.) I hav

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:15:07AM -0500, mmissett wrote: > 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 Hi again, it is very important to hav

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent, The changes you suggested to /etc/network/interfaces are definitely not working. With the file configured that way, "/etc/init.d/networking start" returns "operation failed". So does "ifup eth0". I should also mention that I had never made changes to the loopback

re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread mmissett
Kent, The changes you suggested to /etc/network/interfaces are definitely not working. With the file configured that way, "/etc/init.d/networking start" returns "operation failed". So does "ifup eth0". I should also mention that I had never made changes to the loopback portion of the f

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Kent West said: "the appropriate under-the-hood processes take place." Well, unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way. In fact, ifup would not work at all with /etc/network/interfaces configured like that . The following is exactly what I did to /etc/network/inte

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread mmissett
Kent West said: "the appropriate under-the-hood processes take place." Well, unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way. In fact, ifup would not work at all with /etc/network/interfaces configured like that . The following is exactly what I did to /etc/network/interfaces: # ifac

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Thanks again to everybody for their answers. My /etc/network/interfaces file is: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installat

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread mmissett
Thanks again to everybody for their answers. My /etc/network/interfaces file is: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network,

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread David Z Maze
"mmissett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/network/interfaces has the following: first, it says the > connection is static, which it isn't, it's DHCP. First off, I'd try fixing that. Run 'ifdown eth0', replace the current eth0 stanza with 'iface eth0 inet dhcp', then run 'ifup eth0' and see w

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: /etc/network/interfaces has the following: I'd recommend you actually post the file, rather than describing it. 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

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-19 Thread mmissett
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

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:18:12PM -0500, mmissett wrote: > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid > question, but I have not managed to find > anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. > I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) > and have

dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread mmissett
Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed the computer from dial-up to cable internet. The conn

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/12/03 17:22), mmissett wrote: > > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid > question, but I have not managed to find > anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. > I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) > and have just changed the

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Kent West
mmissett wrote: Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed the computer from dial-up to cable int

Re: dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:22:51 -0500, mmissett wrote: > Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but > I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and > documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a > powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed th

dial-up to ethernet

2003-12-18 Thread mmissett
Apologies first if this if a very basic and/or stupid question, but I have not managed to find anything about it in the archives and documentation that seems to be working. I am running potato on a powerpc (Mac G4) and have just changed the computer from dial-up to cable internet. The conn