Gareth Williams wrote:
You changed the config on one install (or rather, set it up on the newly installed 9.1 system, no?) and now it doesn't work on either?
Yup, so obviously, the install broke my internet configuration somehow. Because the home dir's are shared, what breaks in one will usually break the other (if I'm logged in as the same user).
Things they have in common:
a) /home - check if it works using a different user, in case it's some setting stored in your home directory (seems unlikely though)
Will try that when I get home from work.
b) the hardware - have you got another machine you could test the modem with?
Yup, it triple boots w Win98 just to test such things...still works in Winblows =(
c) the ISP. Again, seems unlikely, but you never know
Will call them tonight to verify.
I will have to save the bloody errors to a text file and email them from Winblows... double =(
Failing any of those, I can't think why both installs would stop working at the same time (you're sure it's only /home that's shared between the two, right?). Unless it's just a really weird coincidence - whenever you have a weird problem, don't discount the possibility that it might be more than one problem. It's happened to me before.
Yup, I agree, it is something simple, it has that feel about it. =)
ok, will check it out. Barring that, I will try a fresh install of 9.1 on yet another partition and try and configure networking dusring install.
Check out /var/log/ppp (or is it ppp.log? I forget, one or the other) as well as /var/log/messages ... post any specific error messages. The netmask thing sounds interesting, it should pick it up automatically along with your IP address when you connect.
Also, try it with both distro's, and check that the error messages match.
Will do.
Cheers, Gareth
Thanks
Jason
Jason Greenwood wrote:
Hope someone can help me out here.
Over the weekend I installed Mandrake 9.1 on a spare partition. I did this so that if Cooker broke something major, I had a spare stable system to boot into. All went well and I setup /home to be shared between cooker and stable. All went fine and I could boot either install having access to all /home stuff. I also upgraded my Cooker install to get the latest kernel and a few other bits and pieces. The problem is that now (after configuring my external modem) that I cannot connect to the net with EITHER install. It tries to connect but immediately after it says "logging onto network" (I use KPPP), the conn dies and it redials. I have NEVER had a problem with this modem and it is autodetected by linuxconf just fine. I checked in /var/log/messages and it says something about an invalid netmask??? I didn't set up a netmask and I am at a loss to find any reason for the problem.
Ideas??
Cheers
Check out /var/log/ppp (or is it ppp.log? I forget, o
Jason
