On Friday 23 January 2004 23:02, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 21:49, Anne Wilson wrote: > > [...snip] > A big thankyou to all who've replied to this thread, and especially > Bryan and Anne who've taken interest recently. I realize it's been > a long and drawn-out series, so I think it may be helpful if I > recap, and bring all readers up to date with my aims and current > situation. > Thanks, Merlin. Now I understand it better
> > Again, on advice from ppl here, I found out how to set the NIC to a > static address, but then found that it had killed my net > connection. To be specific, the modem would dial and connect to the > ISP, but no data would come down - not mail, nor web pages, usenet, > ICQ, etc. I've been going around in circles since - it seems I can > have one or the other: if I set the NIC to a static address, the > two machines will ping but I lose the internet; if I set the NIC to > auto, I can use the internet but the two machines won't ping. [and, > Mandrakes hangs on booting at the "bringing up ETH0" line] > OK - again, I can only speak for 9.1, but I assume 9.2 is similar. If you use Mandrake Control Center to set up your network and Internet, you should have two entirely separate configurations to do. IIRC under 9.1 that is not obvious unless you hit the Advanced button, at which point you see one button for editing your lan connection and another button for setting up the Internet connection. It sounds as though your lan setup is more or less what you need, so leave that alone for now and look at the other half. In there the dns server will be an ip address given to you by your isp. I can't remember the setup pages clearly, but there should be an obvious setting to allow your isp to allocate an ip for the connection. The static address you use for your lan should not affect this at all. Step through that setup and write down anything you are unsure about. Come back with questions. > so I tried that, and this is what I got: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# kedit /etc/hosts > _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root > DCOPServer up and running. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource > busy kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed > kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. > kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. > kdeinit: Exit. > This is outside my experience, so I'll leave Bryan to look at that. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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