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Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.



OK Sean, the output of "# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111" was "eth0 Media Link Off". The result of "$ ping 216.239.57.100" was "Network is unreachable" :-(

Cheers,

Brian

sean finney wrote:

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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