On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:41:03PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
| Tuesday, October 09, 2001, 9:54:05 PM, dman wrote:
...
| d> | Is this good or bad?
| d> It is good, but not complete. For example right now with this
| d> Inspiron 7500 (3Com PCMCIA NIC) I get :
| d> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:AC:3B:BD
| d> inet addr:129.21.239.107 Bcast:129.21.239.127
Mask:255.255.255.128
| d> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
| d> RX packets:874 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
| d> TX packets:833 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
| d> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
| d> RX bytes:106469 (103.9 Kb) TX bytes:73303 (71.5 Kb)
| d> Interrupt:11 Base address:0x3000
| d> You will notice that I have an IP address associated with the
| d> interface in addition to the packet history information.
|
| I have the IP addresses too, I posted that right after this mail since
| I forgot to tell :)
If you have the IP addresses, then you are all set, right? What
happens if you try to ping some other IP address? If that fails try
traceroute instead and see where the packets get lost.
If you can ping an IP address, but not a host name it means you don't
have DNS set up. See my previous post for data /etc/resolv.conf.
| d> | Please help me, I'm a newbie and I have no idea on how to fix this.
| d> Do you have anything in /etc/network/interfaces? At the moment the
| d> only things I have that are not commented out are :
|
| d> auto lo
| d> iface lo inet loopback
|
| d> iface eth0 inet dhcp
...
| I only have "iface lo inet loopback" in my file, could that be my
| problem?
|
| I don't want to use dhcp, should I still do it you way?
Sort of, instead of putting 'dhcp' there, you put
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.6
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
but substitute the correct values for your machine.
Oh, yeah, I just remembered that in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts there may
be some configuration. I'm not completely sure on this, but I think
that file is used instead of /etc/network/interfaces when the cardmgr
tries to automatically startup and shutdown services for you. I keep
getting errors like "device not found" in my logs from cardmgr, but
manually running 'ifup' or 'ifdown' works fine for me.
HTH,
-D
