Hey Billy, excuse me for failing to notice your status with our Services. It doesn't matter to me whether you use the g5 to play pacman; it's an honor to assist you in any way possible.
To business: First, there are at least several desktop interfaces available within YDL and they structure their application menus slightly differently, at least in my view. The app you are using which you called Network Settings is probably an interface application to the system-config-network application which you actually need to use to get the network system within YDL functional. In the main menu of your desktop interface (it shouldn't matter whether it is e17, gnome or something else. I use XFCE. In the main menu, look for System then move to Network Device Control. This is an interface application which should show your eth0 device and it's status (active or inactive). You'll notice a third option Configure. Click upon it. A dialog box will appear which begins: You are attempting to run "system-config-network"... You must enter root password for the system - which is different (should be) from the user password - in order to have access. A dialog box appears called Network Configuration. Right underneath the New, Edit, Copy icons are tabs Device, Hardware, IPsec, DNS, Hosts. Select Hardware, IPsec and the others and examine them in detail to make sure that each of the options within each tab are appropriate for your environment; meaning that every option is approved or sanctioned and accurate. IPsec would be important in some situations but not others depending on the what your system is doing. Linux is infinitely defensible if you know what you are doing. Firewall: There are different philosophies regarding the appropriate approach. I use a firewall on my router and a firewall operational within YDL. I also have active a firewall within OS X. Call me nuts, but my system doesn't fail. You need to enforce what is recommended within the environment which surrounds you. Being rather focused on defending what is mine, I choose to go the extra mile and avoid nasty problems. If there are any changes to be made within a particular tab you will notice that New, Edit etc. remains available or greys out (is unavailable) according to the unique tab you are in. You can change or modify the Ethernet card by clicking upon Edit within the Hardware tab. In your situation, you will most likely have to add specific hosts unique to your purposes. You can add hosts for your card and YDL to recognize under the Hosts tab, and click the New icon. Likewise to create tunnels you need to use the IPsec tab and click the New icon. Of course, if you really want to show off what a g5 is capable of -- write code activating the Altivec processors which process code at 128bits. Windows and other current operating systems top out at 64! Enough ideas from me, I'm looking to serve as a civilian within the IT wing of the Services. I hope I can get in; meanwhile I'll use a popular common phrase directed to President Truman but modify it for you and your comrades, as an encouragement against our enemies: Give 'em Hell!!! On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:35:26 -0500 "Lenox, Billy AMRDEC/Sentient Corp." <[email protected]> wrote: > I have only One Ethernet port on the G5 and have changed > Out the Cable with 5 others and it is not the Cable. > I have reset the HP switch it is plugged into at least > 5 times and I have done a ifconfig -a and can see that it > Is there and online. It is active under the Network Settings > And the FIREWALL is disabled and still the system says > It is installed and will not PING anything at all. > Fresh Install of YDL on the system. Am I forgetting to do something > else? > > Billy > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
