Re: Second question for 2008
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:52:39PM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 January 2008 05:01:49 pm Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:48:10PM -0500, John Culleton wrote:
> > > The connection is cable (Comcast.) The problem is that most forms of
> > > Debian reverse the logical names of my nic devices. eth0 becomes eth1 and
> > > eth1 becomes eth0.
> >
> > Take a look in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and fix the
> > mapping from MAC address to interface name.
> >
> > > I determine this from comparing the MAC numbers shown in ifconfig. I
> > > have since installed Kubunu from the Kubuntu live cdrom (latest
> > > unstable version) and that configured the nics correctly. Knoppix
> > > also identifies the nics correctly but an HD installation of Knoppix
> > > is not trivial. I no longer have a conventional Debian partition up
> > > but I suppose I could create one just to read off the lspci results.
> >
> > lspci results shouldn't vary from distribution to distribution
> >
> > > The error message is of course, "network not found."
> >
> > I do not understand the "of course", as I have never seen this error
> > message in ten years of networking with various Linux systems.
> >
> > Please give an exact example of what you are doing to obtain this
> > error message.
> >
> > Greetings
> > Marc
> >
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> Sorry, the exact message was (url name) not found. The meaning however is
> that the network conection was not established. I couldn't ping comcast.net
> (my ISP) and so on.
Did you have a default route? Were you able to ping the default
gateway by its IP address? Were you able to ping an Internet site by
its IP address?
What you report looks like a DNS issue.
Greetings
Marc
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