Re: Continuing internet oddities
> installation, was automatic. During boot everything would be
> connected and all the dhcp stuff with the router would be setup and I
> could see this come across the screen and then bang, I was online.
> The same is true here in Debian, except that nothing ever appears
> onscreen or in dmesg and I can only tell if it has worked by trying to
> use the connection.
Finaly, call isp by the phone, or
go to their site. How do you get
this ip address? On cable, you have
static or dhcp option. On adsl it
is probably pppoe for you.
It matters if you have either local
or world-wide public address.
> I had thought about doing this initially, but decided that I would go
> with a Linksys router as I figured it would use less power than one of
> my old machines, and take up less space as well. It also allows me to
> share my internet connection and has always done so automatically.
And the price is not so high.
I recommend wrt54gl. From their ori-
ginal software, you take option for
address negotiation isp gives you.
DNS servers too.
> But, after this recent upgrade which somehow changed either my
> configuration or installed packages everything changed. Unfortunately
> as I have never been entirely sure what is going on with Debian behind
> the scenes with DHCP or known exactly what was installed, as it
> detected everything and installed it during the initial setup of the
> system, I cannot be entirely sure what was there and is now gone or
> different.
Man top. Man ps.
> What is causing me the headaches right now is that it is basically
> working. Most of the time I do get a connection when I boot, though
> not always. But, after getting connected, most of the time that
> connection just drops out completely leaving it useless.
Maybe isp fails.
What is your ethernet chip? Do you
see timeout or DOWN-UP in messages?
Sometimes helps to "shock the monkey",
power down all units, including modem.
Zoran
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