The Sony Vaio was not content to refuse to connect wirelessly using wicd. Last evening it booted with the ethernet cable connected but did not bring up eth0. First question I need to answer is what might be responsible for this behavior when it worked consistently when on the ethernet cable here.
After poking around I discovered that eth0 was not RUNNING. After issuing 'ifconfig eth0 up' the interface was RUNNING and could ping the server and gateway/router (the only other hosts up at that time). But, to rub salt in my wounds, it cannot connect to the 'Net. I see 'network is unreachable'. When I look at the kernel routing table there is no default route and none with a 'G' code. I added a default route, but still could not access the 'Net even though I could ping the gateway by name or IP address. What might be the cause of this? After all it did work until last evening. I will try to replace wicd with Network Manager; the applet needs a bunch to other packages that are not installed by default in Slackware. I will probably bring the Sony to Sunday's clinic and hope that a networking guru can provide the necessary expertise and insights that I lack. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
