The other day I was annoyed to find that AT&T @Home cable had changed my IP
address without my knowledge. I played around in Linuxconf and DrakProfile
to change system settings to reflect that. Next time I booted up, my
internet connection didn't work. Now whenever I try to make connections to
remote sites, I get "unknown host."
Here's what bootup tells me:
network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded
ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization.
network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
I don't know why this would be. I've checked my settings in Windows, and it
appears as if everything is the same in both systems.
Other notes:
NIC is enabled, to use DHCP.
(is it System Control, the thing that shows devices and related info?)- Shows
NIC to be properly configured
HardDrak shows my card as it is, a Via-Rhine 10/100 PCI card.
I tried running DrakProfile and getting that to set up my card. It said
"loading drivers for via-rhine card" or something similar, then complained
that my network card is not properly set up.
Comments:
This is a big pain in the butt. My system works great asides from this
annoying lack of connectivity. I'm not going to make many Linux converts if
I can't show them a system that works with the internet. I can also not read
my POP mail. I miss KMail. If you can think of *anything* at all that would
help, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Dan
ICQ 4689648
