Brett Fenton wrote:
> by setting up for the network i assume you're just referring to giving
> it an allocated ip address (or dchp) informing it of the gateway etc?
yep.
> just edit (in vi or pico etc) the config file /etc/network/interfaces
righto, now I have
/etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
......
iface eth0 inet static
address a-static-ip-that-I-own
netmask 255.255.254.0
I have restarted the networking and rebooted even. I can ping machines
on out network but not outside.
resolve.conf is empty. I presume I need a DNS lookup somewhere or else
apt-setup wont be able to find things.
Sebastian said..
> Try
> dpkg-reconfigure etherconf
>
> as root. This will rerun the networking setup script that occurred
> during system installation. That should be sufficient to get you
> connected, and you can look at network environment tools later.
That sounds exactly what I want but I get the error message "etherconf
is not fully installed"
Mike
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