On Tuesday 06 January 2004 05:42 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:26, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > [...snip] > > You should run the wizard DrakConnect again and make sure that you choose > > static IP address and give your ethernet card an IP address yourself. > > What should I set it *to*? The same as when it's running WIN2K? > > Interestingly, since I ran that wizard, now it stalls for quite a long > time on booting, when it hits the line "bringing up ETH0", then it > eventually says "failed" and [thankfully] continues booting. It never > used to do that before.
Well, according to your previous post, you are currently setup to use DHCP on your Linux machine. However, you don't have DHCP on your machine because the Windows software is using zeroconf to automatically provide an IP address. Run DrakConnect from the Mandrake Control Center. Choose the Wizard and let it autodetect. You should see a Lan connection -ethernet card(s) detected with a check box that should have an X in it. Choose Next. Uncheck the Automatic IP box and enter an IP address on that line. You can use a 10. address like 10.0.0.20 and enter 255.255.255.0 for the netmask. Enter something for the hostname, use whatever you like. I would leave the DNS Server and Gateway blank, as well as the zeroconf hostname. That should get your lan card working and then you only need to edit your /etc/hosts file and create an entry for your machines to connect to them. That should read: 10.0.0.20 machinename 10.0.0.21 machinename2 etc. You have to perform similar actions on the Windows machine to be able to connect to the Linux one. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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