Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-16 Thread enantiomer
Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:50:11 +0100, enantiomer wrote: > > > I tried doing some diagnostics by running > > ifconfig and route, but they dont return any values at all. > > What do you mean with 'not at all' ?? > I'd expec

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-16 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (enantiomer) writes: > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> My laptop's /etc/network/interfaces file looks very loosely like >> >> iface eth0 inet dhcp >> >> iface net-home inet static >> address 192.168.1.3 >> netmask

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-16 Thread enantiomer
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (enantiomer) writes: > > > Recently I looked into setting up my laptop so that it could switch > > between static and dhcp. I looked at an article on this group and > > tried the suggestion and it di

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:34:11AM -0800, enantiomer wrote: > > > iface eth0 inet dynamic I overlooked this. It couldn't work, because... > ok, i was not being very observant and forgot to switch the 'dynamic' > word to 'static' when I got home to my static IP network. I still ... `dynamic' is

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread enantiomer
Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi, enantiomer. > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:43:41PM -0800, enantiomer wrote: > > I was very careful to > > return the file back to it's original state. Any help? > > Backup

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:50:11 +0100, enantiomer wrote: > I tried doing some diagnostics by running > ifconfig and route, but they dont return any values at all. What do you mean with 'not at all' ?? I'd expect a lo0 to 127.0.0.1 at least. Some route, probably. If both are really empty, I'd have t

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (enantiomer) writes: > Recently I looked into setting up my laptop so that it could switch > between static and dhcp. I looked at an article on this group and > tried the suggestion and it didn't work. I restored my interfaces > file back to normal (i had commented out what I h

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, enantiomer. On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:43:41PM -0800, enantiomer wrote: > I was very careful to > return the file back to it's original state. Any help? Backup copies are really worth them. > ---File begins below line -

problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread enantiomer
Recently I looked into setting up my laptop so that it could switch between static and dhcp. I looked at an article on this group and tried the suggestion and it didn't work. I restored my interfaces file back to normal (i had commented out what I had put in before) and thought all would be well,