On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:57 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 18:09:56 -0700 > Paul Munday <[email protected]> dijo: > > >you might be able to manually configure the networking something like: > > > >ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.125 netmask 255.255.255.0 > >route add default gateway 192.168.0.1 > > > >you will need to get the gateway from the working machine and guess an > >ip not in use > > According to netstat -nr the desktop's gateway is 192.168.0.1. I have > only half a dozen printers and a couple of computers and it has long > been my practice to put a label with its IP address on each device. > Hence, it was easy to see that 192.168.0.5 was free. So I did: > > #ifconfig eth0 192,168,0,5 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add default > gateway 192.168.0.1 > > And the result was: > > route: Unknown host > > I guess that's because it can't connect to the gateway because there is > no net connection. > > that was supposed to be two different commands: ifconfig eth0 blah blah blah and then route add blah blah blah -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
