Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Richard Harran.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Unfortunately, I haven't had any luck at making ftp or telnet work at all, either using ip numbers (gives error 'no route to host'); or computer names (gives eth0 time out). Could someone explain what should be after 'search', or 'domain' in the resolv.conf

Re: Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
If you still have the line starting 'lookup ...' in your /etc/resolv.conf try removing it completely. I checked the man page and there was no mention about lookup option. My resolv.conf looks like this: search ton.tut.fi cs.tut.fi atm.tut.fi cc.tut.fi nameserver 193.166.80.16 nameserver

Re: Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Richard Harran.
Thanks for the advice. I can't do 'rmmod 3c509', as it says 'device or module in use', even if I try this straight away on booting. When I try 'pnpdump', I get unknown command error. ifconfig looks like this : eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:63:c5:cb inet addr 131.111.193.137

Re: Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hello again, You probably have to say 'ifconfig eth0 down' before you try to remove the 3c509 driver module. I have the pnpdump utility in /sbin directory and you can get it from http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/pnpdump if you trust my binaries :) NOTE: pnpdump resets the PnP cards. It hasn't been

Re: Still trying to install debian through ftp.

1997-06-16 Thread Richard Harran.
Hi again ! Thanks for the tips. However, I'm not a very experienced network user, so : how do I download the pnpdump 3c5x9 files from your web-site (bearing in mind that I'm using netscape under windows95 (when I go to the address, and choose save file, the file type is html)), and then how do