On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:07:55PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just > got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time > editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's > computer, makes my eyes complain a lot. I am trying to keep the eye > strain at a tolerable level. I hope you understand. okay, well then just be extra clear what you're talking about.. > The output of "# tail /var/log/messages" was as follows: > > sda: status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08 > sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector0 > unable to read partition table that looks like unrelated errors... > The output of "# tail /var/log/syslog" was as follows: > > named[170]: exiting (due to assertion failure) > lpd[195]: restarted > kdm[229]: server /usr/X11R6/bin/ X cannot be executed. > kdm[219]: Server unexpectedly dies. Server for display : 0 cannot be > started, session disabled. again, unrelated... > 1 Ethernet adapter : > > IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100 > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 > Default Gateway . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 okay, and since your other box is 192.168.1.101, i think it's safe to assume that your dhcp server is giving out addresses on the 192.168.1.0 network. how about trying to manually configure your device then, with: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111 and then see if you can ping some ip addresses, like: $ ping 216.239.57.100 (that's www.google.com). if that works, you just need to copy the dns information over too. sean
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