Configuring Network Card
I am trying to add a network card and I am having a lot of trouble. Can anyone out there help? When I enter the command ifconfig eth0 cr, I get: eth0 Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM HWaddr inetaddr:143.122.16.109 Bcast:143.122.16.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:5 Base Address:0x280 The inet, broadcast and mask addresses all look fine. I am assuming that since the program responded that it tested the IRQ5 and base address for the network card (Is this a safe assumption?) When I enter route -n cr, I get the following reponse Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MetricRefUse Iface 127.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0U00 0lo and that's it! There is no entry for my network card. So, I try to add it to the system. When I enter the following: ifconfig eth0 143.122.16.109, I get: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device If I then enter route add 143.122.16.109, I get SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable What's going on? Thanks in advance, Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help in configuring network card
Hi all, When I initially installed the Debian Linux system, I did not have a network card installed. I now have a 3COM network card installed and connected to our Novell network. Is there any utility which will automatically do this (i.e. prompt for the IP address, Hostname, DNS server, etc.? Also, what packages do I need (if any)? TIA, Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie Question
Hi all, I have a very basic questions that I feel pretty silly asking but here goes I have just installed the Debian Linux system on a 386 machine for experimental purposes and have transferred and installed the gnuchess.deb package (I used dpkg --install gnuchess.deb because I am still trying to figure out what dselect does and how it works) . Now how do I run the darn thing. I have found the following files in the /usr/games directory: gnuchess gnuchessc gnuchessn gnuchessr gnuchessx What are all of these files and what do I do with them (Do I have to build an executable?). Obviously I come from a wintel background and am expecting a .exe file but there isn't one here (or is there?). The attributes show them to be -rwxr-xr-x (whatever that means) Is this typical with other packages? For example, I have also downloaded the ppp.deb package and installed it but where in the world did it put the executable files so that I can run it. (I am still trying to get the PPP to work so that I don't have to download from my Windows 95 machine and transfer everything over via diskette (very painful and slow and not feasible for the bigger packages). Pardon my ignorance and thanks in advance, Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Corp. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing debian Other packages
Hi all, I have found out that I am having a problem downloading the file from the ftp site (sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/buzz/msdos-i386), but I don't know how to fix it. If I click on the file (using Netscape Navigator), I get the binary garbage written out to my screen. If I right click on the file icon, and use the Save Link As.. option, I can save it to my hard disk. The problem is that it is not saving this in a binary format. I can go to the Netscape options (Options | General Preferences... | helpers) and add in the deb extention to the application/x-compress entry but this still doesn't work. I went through compuserve and retrieved the same file using their ftp menu and then compared them (saved the same file with a different name) doing a DOS command fc win95tmp.deb cmpsvtmp.deb /b and they are way different. I can copy them both to diskette and the one that I downloaded from compuserve will work but the other one won't. What is wrong here? Regards, -- --- Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Life is not a spectator sport... --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help installing debian Other packages
Hi all, I have installed the Debian linux system on my system but am now having problems installing other packages. I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. For example, I have transferred the gzip-1_2_4-10.deb file to the Debian Linux system and now want to install it. I can issue the following command line: dpkg --install gzip-1_2_4-10.deb I then get the following error: dpkg-deb: 'gzip-1_2_4-10.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing dpkg_1_2_11elf.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gzip-1_2_4-10.deb I am pretty sure that it is a valid binary file because I have downloaded other binary files the same way and have had no problems with them. I have also tried installing a number of other debian packages and get the same error. Is there anything special that I need to do with these debian packages before I try to install them? What am I doing wrong? TIA, P.S. I am pretty new to this UNIX game (coming from wintel programming), so I would appreciate it if you could detail your explanations. --- Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Life is not a spectator sport... --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
