Hello again... In reply...
> I've just followed your advice and it seems to have worked (the DHCP > detection was successful) but I still can't connect to the internet ;( > > I'm a bit lost because the installer keeps asking me about ppp > configuration, my modem and the ISP phone number, but that's not the right > thing, because I use a router, which is already working and I can connect to > the internet through another computer. > > The AMD64 netinst installer didn't ask such questions, but the i-386 > netinst installer does. Interesting... I did not have that issue. It just went and fetched the packages for me straight away. Where did the DHCP lease come from? I take it that it was issued by an ADSL modem? If so, check that the DNS settings were sent along with it. (My DHCP addresses are served by a computer on my local network that I set up running isc-dhcp3. The same machine also runs bind9 in a caching configuration. The DHCP lease also specifies DNS to any computers). > 1) I was unable to use dmesg | less (it said something like " less: > command not found" ) but dmesg | more did work. It may well have been my > fault, but I'm commenting it just in case. My bad. Less is not in there... I am used to using it on an installed system, which will have less if I've been near it. My apologies for this. > 3) I don't know whether this is getting off-topic for this list. I'm sorry > if it is. In general, I'm not quite clear about when to reply to the author > and when to reply to the list. Is there an established policy, netiquette or > tradition about this? I'm not too sure about this either; I am posting this back to the list because I feel this might help other people. (Also, sorry for my delay in replying; work sent me to a remote, non-internet connected location in the Australian outback. Now that's off topic.) Have fun! Daniel.
