RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread steve
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 16:14 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > Thanks for previous tips and linux commands. > > I'm slowly getting somewhere now. > However, it turns out that each time I get the 'lease' section not quite > what it wants in the dhclient.conf file the NetworkManager entries in > syslog

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Thanks for previous tips and linux commands. I'm slowly getting somewhere now. However, it turns out that each time I get the 'lease' section not quite what it wants in the dhclient.conf file the NetworkManager entries in syslog indicate it is disabling the device 'eth0': "hrnzlx02 NetworkManager

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread steve
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:15 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > (oops - previous message got away on me...) > > >-Original Message- > >From: jim.cheet...@gmail.com [mailto:jim.cheet...@gmail.com] On Behalf > Of > >Jim Cheetham > >Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 10:55 a.m. > > > >So, edit /etc/dh

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:15 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > Is there a way to restart the networking service (or whatever it is > called) without a reboot? Right clicking and choosing enable/disable > doesn't do trick. At a terminal; sudo invoke-rc.d networking restart > Is there a way to see the

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Bryce Stenberg
(oops - previous message got away on me...) >-Original Message- >From: jim.cheet...@gmail.com [mailto:jim.cheet...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of >Jim Cheetham >Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 10:55 a.m. > >So, edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf, and look at the commented-out stuff >at the bottom :-) >

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: jim.cheet...@gmail.com [mailto:jim.cheet...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of >Jim Cheetham >Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 10:55 a.m. > >So, edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf, and look at the commented-out stuff >at the bottom :-) > I've been trying this out using 'lease' but

Re: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > This is have it set to use DHCP to get network address etc, but if no dhcp > server is found within the timeout then set it to an already set manual > configuration instead. > > Does anyone know if this is possible under Ubuntu 9.04? A good

Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, I'm really warming to this Ubuntu operating system now. But there is one thing I would like to do is set up the eth0 network to have an 'alternate configuration' similar to how it works under windows. This is have it set to use DHCP to get network address etc, but if no dhcp server is f

Re: Alpining

2009-08-19 Thread Derek Smithies
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Re: Alpining

2009-08-19 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Aidan Gauland wrote: A while ago--a long while ago, I think--someone on this list shared his excitement over discovering Alpine, because he was a fan of Pine. Sounds like me. but I have failed to overcome the geekiness of it every time. I set up my fetchmail/procmail/(

Re: Alpining

2009-08-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hello, > > A while ago--a long while ago, I think--someone on this list shared his > excitement over discovering Alpine, because he was a fan of Pine. I > have since tried a few times to set up Alpine--because it sounded > better than anything else I hav