On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:23:13PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > At 08:33 PM 3/6/2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > >can you ping a ip address and can not ping a domain name? > >Have you considered booting a livecd and then using debootstrap as a way > >to install? > > I've actually managed to track down this problem. Somehow, for some > reason, the DHCP client Debian uses right now was telling my ISP's > DHCP server to return completely fresh information and not the > information my NIC was registered with. That made it refuse to let me > work without logging in, which I couldn't do without a web browser. > > I managed to get them to assign me a static IP configuration for a > couple hours so I could at least get it installed and to the point > that I had a web browser. Since Slackware worked, and it uses dhcpcd, > I got rid of the default one and installed dhcpcd. And it immediately > began returning the preassigned IP address and even upon reboot is > working flawlessly. > > Do you think I should file a bug report against the installer, or > file one against the client package, or just forget it altogether and > be glad I got it working? I have seen several other people on the > 'net with the same symptoms, but the causes may have absolutely > nothing to do with mine. I'd report a bug against the installer and include the details about the dhcp client as the source of the problem and how it was solved by using a different dhcp problem. If you provide all the info, the maintainer will reassign the bug where he/she thinks it should be but since it happended while using the installer, I'd start with that. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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