On Thu December 31 2009, Mark wrote:
Is there a newbie-friendly manual somewhere that I can use to configure
the networking from scratch? Any thoughts about what might be going wrong?
most of your networking CONFIG files are in /etc/network.
the MAIN file you want to SAVE after it works is "interfaces" .
this is the file that sets up your local, eth0 ( wired) and eth1(wireless).
here is my interfaces file:
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
#new dhcp setup
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
#allow-hotplug eth0
#auto eth0
# static setup
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.10.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
dns-nameservers 192.168.10.1 4.2.2.3 208.67.222.222
gateway 192.168.10.1
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sometimes, when I want to change to dhcp, I uncomment the DHCP setup, comment
out the static setup and it looks like this:
#new dhcp setup
iface eth0 inet dhcp
allow-hotplug eth0
# static setup
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet static
#address 192.168.10.2
#netmask 255.255.255.0
#dns-nameservers 192.168.10.1 4.2.2.3 208.67.222.222
#gateway 192.168.10.1