On Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:26 PM, dman wrote: > Usually this means your network interface isn't up. (like if I turn > on the laptop, but forget to "sudo ifup eth0" first) In case you're interested, here's a strategy to configure laptop ethernics automatically--even if you have a hardware config that changes regularly (docking, PCMCIA, whatever). http://www.orthogony.com/gjw/lap/lap-ether-intro.html -=greg