Re: Cannot connect to network now...
"Kent West" <westk@acu.edu> wrote in message
news:33wJm-633-5@gated-at.bofh.it...
> Brian Coiley wrote:
>
> >modconf also appears to be broken. When it says "Please select the
category
> >of modules", there is no list of categories. The only option reads "Exit
> >Finished. Return to previous menu." Which takes me right back out to
the
> >command prompt. There's also an OK button, and a Cancel button, both of
> >which also simply quit. And that's it.
> >
>
> >[Discover] said, among other things, "Skipping module sis900. It's
> >already loaded." As noted in an earlier post, the problem appears to be
> >unrelated to the NIC, and entirely to do with obtaining a DHCP lease.
USB
> >mouse still doesn't work.
> >
>
> >Unfortunately, unless it gets one hell of a sight easier very fast,
> >tomorrow's operating system is going to remain the preserve of a few very
> >determined digit heads. I have 20 years' software development experience
> >and a degree in mathematics, and if I'm having all this trouble, how the
> >hell is the average Windows user supposed to manage?
> >
> >
>
> This sounds more and more like the dist-upgrade did not complete
> properly. You might want to post the contents of your
> "/etc/apt/sources.list" file for us to peruse (although that might be
> hard right now without networking, although you could use a USB
> Flashdrive, or CD, or floppy, or even an image from your digicam).
>
> You might want to re-run "apt-get dist-upgrade" and watch for any
> errors. Take care of the errors and repeat until you get no more errors.
>
>
> >Kent West wrote:
> >
> >>Until the viruses hit,
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Never had one, just need to be sensible. Good virus checkers are free
these
> >days.
> >
> >
>
> Perhaps I should have said "malware" instead of viruses.
>
> >>and the license fees,
> >>
> >>
> >
> >My lost earning time on this stuff already amounts to more than twice the
> >cost of a Windoze licence.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Until the BSA comes knocking and you realize you've paid for the
> license, but didn't adequately track it. Granted, in a single-user
> environment, that's probably not a big deal, but with 10,000 machines,
> that can get scary.
>
> >>and the
> >>inflexibility,
> >>
> >>
> >
> >???????
> >
> >
>
> Like trying to move "Program Files" onto its own read-only partition in
> a school lab environment. Or recoding the source to fit your needs
> rather than what Microsoft deems as your needs. Or completely
> uninstalling Internet Explorer. (Yes, there are work-arounds, but I find
> Linux to be much easier to tailor to my way of doing things than is
> Windows.)
>
> I'm not trying to say Debian is a better OS than is Windows, just that
> it is for me.
>
> --
> Kent
>
Thank you folks for your continued interest. Here is the current situation:
I ran the distribution update again, having taken Maurits' advice to make
sure that I first did an apt-get update. It updated over 200 packages!
Running it a further time updates nothing, so I assume it is all done now.
WHAT IT FIXED:
=============
Not a lot really. It still fails to automatically get a DHCP lease.
However, the script "dhclient" now works, so I no longer have to find and
run one of the kernel-specific underlying dhclient commands. So, by running
"dhclient", I can easily get a DHCP lease and hence a network connection,
but for some reason it will not do so automatically (something that it did
quite happily with Woody).
WHAT IT BROKE:
==============
Last night, at about 1:00 a.m., I finally got X and Gnome working, except
for a minor glitch with keyboard layout (see earlier post). The re-run of
the distribution update has now broken it. Issuing "startx" now results in
a totally blank screen (I mean COMPLETELY blank, like I turned the monitor
off). Ctrl-Alt-bkspace takes me back to the command prompt, where I observe
the following error: "client 5 rejected from local host". A trawl of the
archives suggests editing the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config and changing
"DisplayManager*authorize: true" to "false". I tried that, but it made no
difference. So, as seems to be entirely typical of this environment, I try
to fix one problem, and something else breaks!
My sources.list file currently reads:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main
Yours in total frustration, about to hurl computer through window...
Brian
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