Re: I solved it the Microsoft way, was Re: ethernet not working
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Laurence wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:15 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I installed from scratch again.
> This time I didn't tell it to use DHCP
> and all was right with the world.
>
> Now why the mistake with DHCP would screw things up so bad
> that I had to reinstall to talk to the outside world is beyond me.
>
> I wasted two days trying to find anything else to do.
>
If you didn't use DHCP, how does it get its IP address?
what does ifconfig tell you?
were you using your own DHCP server?
Static assignment specified at install time.
That is what it was before the first install from scratch.
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