John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The laptop is old enough that the ethernet connection is by a Xircom
> pcmcia card, and this
> works well except for ntp-client.  The claim that "net.eth0 could not be
> started" puzzles
> me since, after the machine boots, ifconfig gives
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:A4:FE:EC:4C 
>           inet addr:192.168.1.105  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

I may be leading you astray, but that IP address looks like one for a private 
net.  Is ntp-client
looking on that private net for a time-server?

Roger Mason

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