network/name resolution problems
Dear debian users, could someone put me out of my trying-to-get-online
misery please?
I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network.
The network settings I am using work under windows on my other partition,
and worked on another machine running debian with a 2.2.xx kernel.
I am running kernel 2.4.22. If this is unwise for someone as
linux-incompetent as me, my excuse is that it seemed like I needed it to
have support for my ATI radeon 9600 graphics card (of which more on
another post i'm afraid) and my SiS 900 fast ethernet card.
dmesg includes
SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xx800
ifup eth0 gives
eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex
as does going through dpkg-reconfigure etherconf (whether I choose dhcp or
not) which all sounded quite positive to me.
However, all my attempts to ssh or ping or lynx fail with complaints about
name resolution, even using an IP address rather than host.domain, e.g:
> ping arizona.princeton.edu [in my domain]
ping: unknown host arizona.princeton.edu
> ping harper.uchicago.edu
ping: unknown host harper.uchicago.edu
> ping 128.135.12.7 [harper's IP address]
PING 128.135.12.7 (128.135.12.7): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: write 128.135.12.7 64 chars, ret = -1
.............
.............
I tried
> route add default gw 140.180.128.1 which gave
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
and by the way
> ifdown eth0
cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory
Does that matter?
There seemed to be some posts in the archives from people having similar
problems with recent kernels, but no obvious resolution that I came
accross. However I expect it's much more my fault than the kernel's.
cheers,
Dan
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Dan Davison
davisonATuchicago.edu
http://home.uchicago.edu/~davison/
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