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Re: Unable to connect to network



On Sunday 20 May 2007 16:49:46 Jeff D wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another
> > thread so it probably got lost.
> >
> > Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany,
> > Iceweasel and Apt all report that "network is unreachable" or "unable to
> > connect to network". Network Setting shows quite clearly that eth0
> > is 'active'. Ping is positive. What am I missing? I have a wired
> > connection to an adsl router. My laptop running Xubuntu works perfectly
> > on the same connection. (not at the same time!)
> >
> > Thanks to Roberto I have tried /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route -n with the
> > following results
> >
> > pete@desktop:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A9:C4:3B
> >           inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea9:c43b/64 Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:1890 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:4453 (4.3 KiB)
> >           Interrupt:177
> >
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >           RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
> >
> > pete@desktop:~$ /sbin/route -n
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0    
> >    0 eth0 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0
> >        0 eth0
> >
> > Since my first posting I have now installed Xubuntu on a separate
> > partition on this machine and it works perfectly.
> >
> > Any help or comments welcome please.
> >
> > Regards
> > Pete Redwood
> > predwood@phonecoop.coop
>
> how are you getting your IP address? static? dhcp? Does your laptop and
> this machine share the same ip?  does name resolution work?

Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried 'ifup -a' to 
see what would happen. Came back 'ifup command unknown'. I have tried both 
the CD iso image and netinstall iso image and network fails to work with 
either installation but both access network during installation. Surely ifup 
should be installed by default. I will try to download it from Xubuntu and 
shunt it onto the other hard drive and try and install it that way and see 
what happens.

-- 
Regards
Pete Redwood
predwood@phonecoop.coop



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