Re: network configuration
thanks for the overwhelming response!! i am out of the university where
they had the ethernet NIS etc ..but i learnt a lot over the week than over
the past week there!! . and now I am facing problems with PCMCIA
PPP)dial-up protocol).. when I try vwdial(or wvdial) i get an error saying
that there was an input/output error.. but i remember that when i
installed debian the modprobe detected the PCMCIA card modem right ...
there are two PCMCIA cards on this laptop and one is a ethernet and the
other is the modem ... now i have these questions ...
do I have to set-up any COM ports etc on which the modem is
communicating ??or do I have to do any more configurations other than what
the install script/program has done to configure PCMCIA
dial-up(dial-out)???
any himts on this please!!
thanks,
praveen kamath
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Heather wrote:
> > Hi all--
> >
> > which is the file on Linux that I have to change so that the machine
> > recognises the sub-net's DNS server, gateway. NIS server etc on linux?? is
> > it the /etc/hosts file and the /etc/networks file??
> >
> > any info on this??
>
> dns servers are listed in /etc/resolv.conf
>
> NIS servers are something else entirely. If you have NIS at your site
> then you surely have a sysadmin who maintains that for you, and it's
> common to have a few other policies he wants to maintain which you should
> follow to be a good citizen on your network. NIS does serve up hostnames,
> but it also handles a lot more than that. NIS is uncommon except in
> Solaris environments.
>
> > it looks like my machine is not able to connect to the network. and the
> > PCMCIA ethernet card looks fine to me, I installed X and ran it, ever
> > since the network problem has occured. I removed the link for the inetd,
> > httpd, named daemons (that were installed when i installed debian) from
> > the init.rc.2 (or 3??)
>
> 2 is the default debian runlevel. You can see it mentioned in /etc/inittab
>
> > and it appears that installing X has affected the network layer on this
> > laptop. any suggestions on how to go about fixing this?? other than having
> > to reinstall debian that is!!
>
> The symptoms are too vague. That you can't reach apt anymore, I guess I
> can understand. with 'ifconfig -a' and 'route -n' results we could make
> some guesses at your current network state. The file /etc/resolv.conf
> should mention the IP address of a good name server... an example:
> search starshine.org
> nameserver 216.240.40.162
> nameserver 209.209.60.131
> nameserver 198.186.202.185
>
> (in this case, that's something on my nearby network, something at my ISP,
> and a trustable external site.)
>
> Did you upgrade pcmcia services by any chance?
>
> With notes from your sysadmin about what you are *supposed* to be allowed to
> connect to, we might even be able to tell whether your bits can get there.
> But if he or she has recently changed something about the network you attach
> to, the problems might not be on your end.
>
> Now whether the local sysadmin would prefer you to be telling us about
> your routes and ip configurations is another question, which we cannot
> answer for you.
>
> * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
>
>
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