Date sent: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:28:05 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Kernel > > Have you actually looked at settings.s? > > I will give you instructions. You follow the instructions. Then I will > help more IF and ONLY IF you have problems with the FIRST instructions. I > am not a Unix teacher, and I'm not going to keep enhancing instructions > unless you are trying to carry them out. I use Linux at work. I have SuSE distribution and only thing related to the network setup I had to do is during the installation I said yes dhcp option. I can access other UNIX machines and do things like compiling, telnet, ftp, html, printing etc, etc ... Other engineers at my company use NT. Network connection is set for them by IS department. The software we work on is on the Sun servers and we access them over the network. I use tomsrtbt for mainaining my workstation and to promote Linux among my friends. At home I have DLS connection with static IP. I use Windows and Linux for accessing Internet and work. I used SuSE installation - no problems. > > 1) Install tomsrtbt > 2) Boot tomsrtbt > 3) Execute the command: > man dhcpcd > 4) Execute the command: > dhcpcd Today I work (that is I am going to :> ) at home with static IP so I skipped 1-4. (I tries the dhcpcd work yesterday with no luck) > 9) Execute the command: > man vi > 10) Execute the command: > man vi.help > 11) Execute the command: > mount /dev/fd0u1722 /fl > 12) Execute the command: > vi /fl/settings.s > 13) modify the file and save it with ":wq" I changed DOMAIN to bellatlantic.net, DNS_1 to default DNS from my ISP, IPADDR to my static IP, NETWORK to IP of Gateway (I have no other IP given by my ISP) rebooted > 5) Execute the command: > man ifconfig > 6) Execute the command: > ifconfig I see the my ip address as set in settings.s but ping says network is unreachable on any of those IP addresses. I tried ifconfig eth0 up <IP of default gateway> > 7) Execute the command: > man route > 8) Execute the command: > route Still no luck, route says: kernel [routingtalk? I cannot read my handwritting] destination loopback, Gateway *, Genmask 255.0.0.0 Flags U, MSS 3584 Window 0 [...] lo > Then you are done. Sort of. I have to harry to do my work. They are getting restless about some urgent bug. I will check my private e-mail i a couple of hours if I can. Cheers. Marcin Mankowski P.S. Tom, I know from experience that if one knows some topic very well it is hard to understand the difficulty for someone else. Man pages are wonderful if you already are familiar with the stuff. I my opinion the good ones are with real working samples instead of "elegant" abstract definitions. P.P.S. Tom, keep doing great job. I appreciate anyway.
