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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list