----- Original Message ----- From: Lisi Reisz Sent: 05/20/13 04:47 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Odd Network Problem
On Monday 20 May 2013 00:15:30 george cox wrote: > I don't know why it wasn't quoted, I'm just hitting re > ply in the email providers web interface. Not sure what you mean by no > air. I'll see what this email looks like when I send this one, maybe it was > just a fluke. Yes, some providers do that. And my email to you has been rammed up all together. It is obviously a problem with your email provider. :-( By “air” I mean gaps, as between paragraphs. I find text all crammed up very difficult to read - indeed I had difficulty unscrambling your reply to me in order to acknowledge it. Which email provider's web interface is this? It seems even more than usually unfriendly. :-( And most of them are fairly uncooperative. E.g. Gmail's habit of breaking up threads is a pain. Lisi The provider is mail.com, which is free as is free beer, and perhaps not a good quality beer either. The problem was that quoting isn't done as text, when I trimmed my reply to Klaus I destroyed all of the quoting. I didn't see that at the time because all that does on the screen is remove a very faint line on the side. I think the one thing I would want to know about my original problem is in the squeeze version of gnome's network-manager, left-clicking on its notification area icon would, show several options one of which is "auto eth0", this seemed to reliably attach my laptop's ethernet port to the default network of the printer-server. I am curious what "auto eth0" does because neither the print-server nor my laptop has a dhcp-server, and neither item was connected to any other network. The print-server must have some magic going on in order to bridge equipment plugged into it to the wireless network (once the wireless part is configured at least), but the manual clearly says when the unit is reset if it can't find a dhcp server it will use the default ip. I've checked that neither laptop has a dhcp server installed. The second is simply using "ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.22" (the .22 I randomly chose, the print-server defaults to using .102) worked on the laptop with squeeze installed, but didn't with the one with wheezy. Thanks.
