At 09:54 AM 5/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Nick, I don't see any mention of your DNS entries! Can you get out on the Internet from ANY computer going through that gateway?
Yes, the other two have no problem seeing each other or the internet. Or we wouldn't be able to have these stimulating conversations!!! I'm in my old hard drive now copying /etc/*.conf . The contents of route.conf: 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 ippp0 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 NONE default 192.168.0.99 Contents of resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.10.1 search nickselby.de
If not, check that you have entries in the Name Server List. This would explain why you can ping the other machines on the network, but you can't get out to the Internet.
--------------------------- Eric Carbone
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Selby [mailto:php@nickselby.com] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:49 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Card Hell (Was network hell)
At 09:31 AM 5/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
A couple of things bothered me about Nick's posts. First, the necessity of rebooting the system. In Linux and Unix systems there are very few reasons why a system needs to be rebooted. Possibly the card services thing may have assigned the installed NIC on eth1 and the PC card onto eth0. In that case, I might suggest a reboot. But, changing most networking information generally requires simply a quick reconfiguration.
That was my suspicion, and the main reason I am hesitant to make the clean reinstall: I just made a clean install on a spanking new hard drive; the thing SEES my ethernet card; there should be no reason it cannot be configured.
Except I don't know how. Or even where to start.
YaST normally handles this. Certainly, if you want to run a new kernel, you need to reboot. But even if you want to change a driver, simply unload the module (if it is loaded), and load the new module. Even if X is screwing up, if you can get to a virtual terminal (ctl-alt-f[1-6]). Log in as root and telinit 3 (to shut off X until you can fix the problem). There are some other reasons. I have seen X grab the mouse and keyboard in such a manner that the only thing you can do is power off.
The other is reinstall. If you really messed up the installation, then that might be a solution, but with most modern Linux distros, you can easily remove and add packages.
With YaST, it is relatively simple to change your network configuration. We hold our monthly LUG meetings at MIT where we have a static IP. After I boot my laptop, I simply reconfigure the network with the static IP assigned to that classroom.
(BTW: I've spent many hours in network hell as well as various code management systems hell :-)
Actually I agree, but since I'm trying to learn about Linux this seems a very Windoweez way of going about it. Something don't work? Reinstall
On 2 May 2002 at 15:13, Nick Selby wrote: the
entire operating system! But I take your point. Of more concern was my distinct impression that the suse tech, while a VERY nice guy, seemed a bit lost. For example, not once did he ask me for the output of ifconfig. For example.
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