Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 02:10:53PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > On 9/9/2016 4:26 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >You know what, though, I did have two entries in there the other day. > >And I found that tip because I was getting the "RTNETLINK

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread Tim McDonough
On 9/9/2016 4:26 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: You know what, though, I did have two entries in there the other day. And I found that tip because I was getting the "RTNETLINK answers: File exists" error that led to that tip (k/t Raspberry Pi @ StackExchange). My firsthand experience is that tip

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/8/16, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:08:04PM +0100, David wrote: >> I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about >> the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. >> >> Can I go back to the old method of

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread Joe
On Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:12:14 +0100 David wrote: > > Firstly an apology, I did not realise there was a Debian Jessie and a > Raspbian Jessie. > > I'm working with Raspbian Jessie. > Debian is the root of many other distributions such as Knoppix and Ubuntu, and

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-09 Thread David
On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 12:42 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > On 9/8/2016 12:08 PM, David wrote: > > > > I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy > > about > > the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. > > > > Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 18:08:04 +0100, David wrote: > I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about > the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. That's a shame. > Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does not seem to work correctly. Nobody in

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-08 Thread Tim McDonough
On 9/8/2016 12:08 PM, David wrote: I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does not seem to work correctly. Can I go back to the old method of editing

Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:08:04PM +0100, David wrote: > I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about > the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. > > Can I go back to the old method of editing /etc/network/interfaces If it's Debian Jessie,

Jessie & Fixed IP Address

2016-09-08 Thread David
Hi Everybody, I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy about the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address. Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does not seem to work correctly. Can I go back to the old method of editing /etc/network/interfaces Or is