On Sunday, March 11, 2012 12:10:35 AM Stephen Wille Padnos did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, March 10, 2012 07:12:59 PM Tony Zampini did opine: > >> Dave, > >> It's not your bad luck, I had the exact same problem when I tried > >> installing the 10.04 Live CD a while ago. Tried multiple times > >> installing from the CD, and each time it failed at a different point > >> in the process. > >> > >> So I too tried installing from a USB stick, and it worked the first > >> time. The install proceeded smoothly, as it should. > >> > >> I think I may have posted my experience to the group back then, > >> but I'm not 100% sure. > >> > >> Anyway, glad you've got it installed! Enjoy. > >> Tony > > > > I didn't. I re-installed today, but the network refuses to recognize > > any ipv4 commands. It sets up all the ipv6 stuff, but I've no clue > > because I don't have ipv6 setup anyplace else on my network. So the > > only way I can bring the ifconfig output to this list is by a pix of > > the monitor screen. Sucks, big time. > > Hi Gene > > IPv6 is probably not being set up in the way you think. By definition, > any ethernet adapter always has a unique "link local" address. This is > basically your MAC address dropped into 6 bytes of the IPv6 address. > The link local address exists regardless of whether you have anything > connected to the ethernet port, since it's assigned by the computer (not > a DHCP server or anything external). If you see two or three IPv6 > addresses, then the interface is actually getting configured for IPv6.
There were at least 2, maybe 3 ipv6 addresses being setup, more than the link-local. They disappeared once /etc/sysctl.conf had been told to nuke the ipv6 stuff. Based on that link Mark Cason posted. > It's likely that the port is (a) bad, (b) disabled in the BIOS or > something, or (c) something is wrong with the driver. > > Then again, it could also be that you didn't have it plugged in during > the install, so networking was turned off by default. It was plugged in , port leds lit. > Try > right-clicking the network icon, and enable networking if it's not > already enabled. I don't recall seeing that icon now that you mention it. > If that's not it, check the BIOS, and if that's not > it, it's probably bad. You could check by plugging in the hard disk > from the other D525MW system, and see if networking works. > > - Steve I got it Steve, with the help of Marks post, thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Old programmers never die, they just become managers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
