This issue is resolved. The problem with my network connection was in my Router. I had gone to fixed IP addresses on all of my machines, meaning I had certain required things set up that would not be on a "fresh out of the box" installation. To get around that, I had to re-enable DHCP on the router and that took care of the problem. I was able to diagnose it because I finally saw an item in the "Administration Guide" (page 349) that said "See if your card has been integrated properly by entering the command ifstatus eth0". I did that end received an error message mentioning eth0 as the culprit. So, my ehternet connection wasn't functioning properly. Luckily, it wasn't hardware related (that's all I would have needed to completely go over the edge!). Anyway, once I got that up and going, I was able to suck my 6 GIG backup across my network. The recovery is running now. It's already through the packages and is now restoring my data, which includes literally 10's of thousands of Oracle files. It will run for hours, but I sort of like just sitting there watching it (gives me a good feeling). Of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as the old saying goes, so until I can get in and actually startup Oracle, I'll still be on pins and needles a bit. Yours truly, Greg Wallace -----Original Message----- From: Greg Wallace [mailto:jgregw@acsalaska.net] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 1:47 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: FW: [SLE] Urgent! Need help! On Thursday 19 August 2004 @ 6:15 PM, C. Richard Matson wrote:
On Thursday 19 August 2004 6:39 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
What an idiot I am! I moved my backup to this EFG80 device via ftp. All I have to do is connect to it and ftp my backup back down to my Linux machine! Actually, I'd have already done it already, but I can't get back on my network. I'm REALLY back to square one! I went into YAST and started inetd, but that wasn't enough. I still can't get back on my network. I did a plain vanilla install, so do I need to get some additional packages installed before I can get this up and going? I tried simply doing --
Ping 192.168.1.77 (the ip address of my Linksys EFG80 where my backup is)
It came back with "Network is unreachable". What do I need to do to get basic networking going again. My machines all connect via a Linksys 4 port Router.
Check the settings of your network card. Rich
Thanks, Greg Wallace
-- C. Richard Matson
I go through a router. I can't even get to the router! And I mean I can't even "Ping" it! I have taken the following steps in YAST. 1) Made sure intetd was up and running 2) Gone to Network Advanced and a) Gone under Host name and DNS and *) Entered my machine name and the Domain Name I'm using in my router. *) Checked "Update name servers and search list via DHCP" b) Gone to Routing and checked "Enable IP forwarding" No luck. I still can't ping my router. I never had this problem before, and I installed from the exact same disk. I did simply take all of the default packages, but I know you don't have to install a special package just to have internet support! This is so aggravating because as soon as I can get on the network and can grab my backup and get my system back. Grrrr! Something sort of amusing about this though -- The default "wallpaper" for Root shows a round back bomb with a burning fuse and a big triangle with an exclamation mark in it. The desktop itself is bright red!! I think Linux is playing games with me!! Greg Wallace -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com