On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:25:38AM +0100, Pete wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > > Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried 'ifup > > > -a' to see what would happen. Came back 'ifup command unknown'. > > > > its in /sbin so you either need the full path, or do it as root (it > > won't work as non-root anyway). > > > > A > > Silly me! Of course it's installed and works if you use root! It was late and > I was tired! > > I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian and > the working Xubuntu and get identical results. /etc/resolv.conf gives > identical results on both boots. If I ping the IP name (as given on my set-up > instructions - 'phone.coop') in either Xubuntu or Debian I also get identical > results - 'Destination Net Unreachable'. And yet, Xubuntu works perfectly - > not using the Gnome desktop but the Xfce desktop - whereas Debian - using > Gnome - fails to access the network. I come to the conclusion that there is > something about Gnome that my setup doesn't like because I seem to remember > when I first installed SuSE a couple of years ago I had the same problem on > Gnome but it worked perfectly on KDE. I stayed with KDE. Now I want to try > Debian. I like it - if only I can get the network working. > well, I know this isn't helpful, but its my experience that gnome doesn't like it if you mess with networking from the CLI. Its either let gnome do it gnome's way, or get gnome out of the way. I don't really use gnome so can't give you specific guidance, but I would recommend you get all the gnome networking stuff out of the way. THat means NetworkManager and maybe avahi too. THen a basic networking setup should be straight forward. The other alternative is to get someone who knows gnome better to comment on the proper way to set it all up. A
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