Hello Bjarne, Am Sonntag, den 02.03.2008, 17:04 +0100 schrieb Bjarne Thomsen: > I have installed the spitz 2007.12 version on my Zaurus C3100. > It does work apart from the network connection via my firewall/dhcp > server. I use a Billionton ethernet card. > This combination used to work running OpenZaurus connected to > the internet via exactly the same firewall/dhcp server. > My firewall/dhcp server is running Mandriva 2006.0 that connects > to an internet provider via an ADSL connection. > This firewall has worked with various boxes running
"has worked" as "in the past" or still does work? > Windows XP, FreeBSD, fedora, ubuntu, suse and mandriva. > This is just meant to point out that the problem must be > angstrom-distribution version 2007.12 (spitz). > nslookup external_host > gives the following response: > Unknown hostname > followed by the correct hostname and the correct IP number. Please use Paste'n Copy for all messages. This makes debugging a _lot_ easier ;) > Evidently there must be some connection. > Any attempt to ping or connect to an outside host fails. Again, please Paste'n Copy all messages. Ping can fail for a ton of reasons and the exact error message may give a clue. > I have no ide as for what is the cause of this problem. > Bu maybe somebody on this list has an ide for something that > I could try. What is the content of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf? Can you ping IP addresses? Can you ping the IP of your gateway? Can you ping the hostname of your gateway? Go your problems away after you flush your packet filter rules? (Since you are running your own "firewall", I assume you know how to do that in a safe way w/o compromising your network and leaving all NAT rules intact) -- Matthias 'CoreDump' Hentges Cologne / Germany Webmaster of Hentges.net & Embedded Linux Developer GPG -> gpg --keyserver gpg-keyserver.de --recv-keys 0xAF3030D9 My OS: Debian SID: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
