On Sunday 30 June 2002 22:04, you wrote:
> On Sunday 30 June 2002 18:58, Timothy Bolz wrote:
> > I changed network cards and I thought you could get network card up
> > by using "ifup eth0". I tried this and it gives me "Ignoring unknown
> > interface eth0." I was able to get it going by using "ifconfig eth0
> > 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up".
>
> Since no one else seems to be around. I'll try to get things started.
>
> So:
> 1) Your network configuration was working
No I never had the network configured. The card worked but the module didn't
so it was easier to change the card. Than to find and compile the fix.
> 2) You needed to change network cards
For the reason stated above.
> 3) You powered down, swapped cards, powered back up
Yes, I had both in for a while but took out the linksys after the other one
was recognised.
> 4) Somehow the kernel recognized your new card & assigned it to eth0
I had to put the module to load in /etc/modules then it fired up.
> 5) But your network configuration was now broken
I've only had it going once or twice and only at the clinics. I was changing
distro's at the time. Now I'm happy with Debian. I think this is the first
time I had it working without help from the group. So I think I'm doing
pretty well.
>
> That's odd. I've made changes like that before and the network has
> come right up. But, whenever I've done this, I've always had to get
> the right driver loaded first (I'm using a modular kernel).
>
I'd like to use the Linksys card but I have to compile Linksys and for some
reason I couldn't link it to the right source so it was just easier to swap
cards. I might try it latter when I upgrade to woody. I'm just waiting
until they release it. I'm running ximian and I've read it's not as stable
as potato.
> Did you do anything else that might have changed your config?
>
I never did configure a network let alone my own network.
> > Is there an easier way of
> > doing this I don't want to do this every time I start my machine.
>
> For Debian Woody and Sid, you can do:
>
> dpkg-reconfigure etherconf
>
I haven't tried this yet but thank you. I found a webpage after searching
for a while which described how to have eth0 come up when starting.
You add this to /etc/network/interfaces
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.64.106
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.64.1
broadcast 192.168.64.255
with the exception I changed the address and left out the gateway and
broadcast. I have no Idea what they do but I think I don't need it for my
2-3 computer network.
> to get things set up. I've forgotten how to do it for potato.
>
> > If I want to connect from another box how would I do this?
>
> From below it sounds like you've had SSH working at some point. So I
> assume you're asking from a hardware perspective here and that you want
> to connect two local boxes. For two local boxes you could use either a
> single "crossover" type ethernet cable between the two boxes or a hub.
> Somehow though I'm not sure this is what you're asking about.
>
After getting the card working I started the other computer and was able to
connect to the other one using SSH. At that point I knew they could talk and
ping each other I just could not get box #2 (Boyle) to get on the network
with Mozilla.
> > I have a dialup connection and have 2 computers and would like to
> > connect the 2nd box to the web thru the 1st box. Would I use IP
> > tables/chains to accomplish this?
>
> You probably want to look into Network Address Translation. Here's a
> starting point: Linux Networking: Using Ipchains (
> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/2100/2/)
>
I've found the same page and printed it up. I'm going to have to sit down and
try it out. I just have other things I've been doing for now.
> > I was able to ssh into each one of
> > the boxes but I wasn't able to get to use the web on the 2nd box.
> > Should I use dhcp on my main box? All I want to do is to be able to
> > access the web from the 2nd box.
>
> You should be fine just doing manual assignment of IP addresses. With
> NAT your local machines would be on their own net (look around for
> references to RFC 1918) which will be "tied" to your ISP's net.
>
Ok, I think that might be better than manually assigning IP addresses. I
know at least it will work with manually assigning them.
> > I'm running Debian potato. Is there a Debian way to do this?
>
> Debian is good to go for all of this. But you may want to look into
> moving to Woody.
>
I'm planning on it.
> > I hope someone can help me with this.
>
> I hope so too. I'm not very good at this.
Thanks, I find this is a very rewarding learning process. Since starting my
journey with Linux and Open Source I've learned that I can control my
computer rather than it controlling me.
Again Thanks.
