On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 06:13, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 05:42 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:26, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > [...snip] > > > You should run the wizard DrakConnect again and make sure that you choose > > > static IP address and give your ethernet card an IP address yourself. > > > > What should I set it *to*? The same as when it's running WIN2K? > > > > Interestingly, since I ran that wizard, now it stalls for quite a long > > time on booting, when it hits the line "bringing up ETH0", then it > > eventually says "failed" and [thankfully] continues booting. It never > > used to do that before. > > Well, according to your previous post, you are currently setup to use DHCP on > your Linux machine. However, you don't have DHCP on your machine because the > Windows software is using zeroconf to automatically provide an IP address. > > Run DrakConnect from the Mandrake Control Center. Choose the Wizard and let > it autodetect. You should see a Lan connection -ethernet card(s) detected > with a check box that should have an X in it. Choose Next. Uncheck the > Automatic IP box and enter an IP address on that line. You can use a 10. > address like 10.0.0.20 and enter 255.255.255.0 for the netmask. Enter > something for the hostname, use whatever you like. I would leave the DNS > Server and Gateway blank, as well as the zeroconf hostname. > > That should get your lan card working and then you only need to edit your > /etc/hosts file and create an entry for your machines to connect to them. > That should read: > 10.0.0.20 machinename > 10.0.0.21 machinename2 >
I left all the above quoted because it's been a while since I visited this problem - real life has been intervening... But I'm having another go at it: for those machine names above, what names do I use? The names they use under windoze? Or just make up two new names? The situation atm is: If I use autodetect in DrakConnect it stumbles at bootup, at the "bringing up ETH0" line [as above] but the internet works. If I give it a static address - either the 192.168.0.20 one or the 10.0.0.20 one, then the two machines will ping ok but the internet doesn't work. Here is what's in /etc/hosts atm: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.20 localhost.localdomain localhost I'm trying to make headway on the documentation you suggested; I installed the HOWTO rpm but it didn't install the exact docs you specified. There are some others that seem related, but so far I haven't come across something that deals with my problem - aside from "ask your system administrator" :) I get the feeling it would take years to wade through all these docs, and the answer is possibly in there - somewhere! But I don't have years to spend on it - I need to know how to maybe search for the elusive bit of info I need... cheers, and TIA again... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618
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