On 5 February 2010 12:12, steve <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:47 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
> >
> > If that doesn't fix the problem it might be worth trying a manual
> > install of the avahi stuff.
> >
> > sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon
> >
> > You might have to install the avahi-autoipd daemon by hand too. I do
> > not know the dependences.
> >
> > sudo apt-get install avahi-autoipd
> Could be tricky with no network...???
>
> (:
>
> Yes, of course. I'm getting too old for this lark.  :-)

He'd have to configure the network by hand first wouldn't he.

sudo dhclient

and if that doesn't work, he'll have to get down to it with ifconfig and
route  the man pages and --help option to both those command are really
quite helpful.




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Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell

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