Re: Network Configuration
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:34:29 -0200
Henrique Rennó <henrique.renno@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Andrei!!!
>
> I'll try it later and I'll answer if it worked. I remember trying to
> ping the two DNS IPs - 200.204.0.10 and 200.204.0.138 - which are from
> Telefônica company here in Brazil, but the ping command seemed to try
> and try without success, because all the packages it sent were lost.
> It's the first time I'm working with Debian and on Slackware, which is
> installed in the other machines, I have no problems accessing any web
> site. The network configuration is located at /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
> and DNS /etc/resolv.conf (I think resolv is default for all GNU/Linux
> distributions). On Debian I don't know where the IP address, network
> mask and default gateway are defined, I just passed them during the
> installation, but I think I can change them using ifconfig.
/etc/network/interfaces
'man interfaces' should give you more details
But if you can't pass the gateway, you should search there too. Are you masquerading?
> Concerning to another subject, I tried to configure my video card, sis
> m760gx, but every sis driver I pass using xf86config don't let me
> initialize X Windows properly. I'm using the driver number 0, VESA
> driver, but it's limited to low screen resolutions. Is there a Debian
> tool to configure the video card?
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Henrique
Usually it's 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' If you change the conffile manually read the notes at the start of the file (XF86Config-4) carefully.
Andrei
P.S. You might want to post this to debian-user, as it has much more traffic and your problem doesn't seem to be laptop specific.
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