On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:56:31AM -0300, Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães wrote: > just to be sure, does your firewall rules allows you to ping other computers > ?
Yes > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Robert Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Have you tried using ifconfig? > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:02:39PM -0300, Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães > >> wrote: > >> > Hi Thomas, > >> > > >> > Can't you just use "/etc/init.d/networking restart" ? > >> > > >> > Marcos > >> > >> It doesn't work. That is if I edit ifstate to set eth0=eth0 and restart > >> networking it reports the network is reconfigured but the network is > >> still unreachable (I tried pinging another computer on the lan) and > >> ifconfig shows the settings of eth0 are unchanged, are still the > >> settings from bootup during which the system looked for a DHCP > >> connection and found none. > >> > >> Tom > >> > > >> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > I have built a very nice Debian Live CD but with two problems. > >> > > > >> > > One, I can't switch to the static IP addressed used by my lan. I > >> included > >> > > a copy of my interfaces file in chroot_local-includes. When I boot > >> from the > >> > > CD I can substitute this file in /etc/network but I can't find a way > >> to > >> > > shutdown the network and restart it with the substituted file. I must > >> have > >> > > failed to include some package as there is no network entry in the > >> > > Debian/Applications drop down list. > >> > > > >> > > (Bringing along my special config files does work very nicely in other > >> > > cases. Specifically, I have an xorg.conf file which allows me to use > >> a > >> > > Wacom tablet. After booting from the cd I substitute a copy of this > >> file > >> > > and restart gdm and the Wacom tablet works perfectly.) > >> > > > >> > > My second problem must also be an omitted package as only root has a > >> > > terminal window. > >> > > > >> > > The CD is 575 MB. I hope a couple small packages might correct these > >> > > problems without taking more than the remaining space. > >> > > > >> > > Tom > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > >> > > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães. > >> > Engenharia Eletrônica e de Computação. > >> > DEL/POLI/UFRJ. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > -- > Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães. > Engenharia Eletrônica e de Computação. > DEL/POLI/UFRJ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
