On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:57:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/21/07 18:13, Pete wrote: > [snip] > > > > Thanks Andrew > > I have a Xubuntu partition that works very well without Gnome but I would like > > to get to the bottom of why Debian/Gnome will not access the network on the > > other partition. Everything else is great. There must be a logical solution > > since other folks run Debian/Gnome quite happily. > > What does /etc/resolve.conf look like on each partition? Let me add to this, Pete, if you're still willing to try to solve this: Post up the following items from BOTH partitions for comparison: contents of /etc/resolv.conf output of /sbin/ifconfig output of uname -a output of ps -e output of ls /etc/init.d/ this will help us review the differences between the systems and see if we can track this down. I still suspect that something in gnome is grabbing hold of your networking situation and make it more complicated than it needs to be. Also, as a test, boot into rescue mode or single-user mode and, run /etc/init.d/networking start and see what that gets you on the command line for pings and maybe a text browser (links, lynx etc). A
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