Re: Cannot connect to network now...
"Brian Coiley" <bcap@clara.co.uk> wrote in message
news:33FWk-4XJ-33@gated-at.bofh.it...
> "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
>
OK, I've fixed the DHCP thing with the help of much Googling. The following
lines were missing from the file /etc/network/interfaces:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
So, back to the once-working-but-now-broken X: all suggestions gratefully
received!
Thanks
Brian
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