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Hi all,
I am making some headway on
getting my network to work, but need more help.
I have a simple configuration,
with a DSL modem hooked to an SMC router, which my machines hang off of. I had
my Mac and My PC running on this setup for quite sometime working well until I
started installing Debian on my Mac....
My little home networking runs
DHCP.
Although the debian install
program was able to load a network configuration via DHCP just fine and download
the whole set of install files, now when I boot into the actual system, it
just wouldn't configure me a network. It acted as if I didn't have one. In fact,
when it boots there is a line that says: eth0: m68k (Mace), (and then my
hardware address) but then on the next line it says "Looking for built in
networking (SONIC)... none."
So I am booted and eth0 is
unconfigured.
Since I couldn't get it to use
DHCP automatically, I tried setting my router to see that hardware address and
assign it a fixed address. Now, when I manually give the 'ifconfig eth0
<address>' command it'll start to use that address, so it can ping the
router or my PC, but still can't get it to see the net. I've tried putting my
dns addresses into /etc/resolv.conf, and tried editing the dhclient-script and
dhclient.conf files, but they don't seem to have any effect when I reboot.
1) Why can't i just run a dhcp
command and have it get everything from my router?
2) failing that, how can I
tell it all the info it would have gotten via DHCP, but have it happen everytime
on boot??
Thanks much for any help....
George
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