On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:15 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote:
> bh quoted mh:
> > > there. I thought I'd seen a red FAILED message
> > > whiz by with something like ethernet in it.
> > >
> > > I'm at a loss. Even if I find the corresponding
> > > log message, I expect it wouldn't tell me how to fix it.
> > > How-tos rarely tell how to fix something after one thinks
> > > he did it right, but it still doesn't work.
> > > Can anyone point me to one that does?
>
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, bryan hepworth wrote:
> > What ethernet card is it?
>
> I think that the following lpsci output applies to my machine.
> 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
> Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 010d
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> I/O ports at ec80 [size=128]
> Memory at fe1ffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
> Expansion ROM at fe200000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: <available only to root>
> I forgot to right some important things down.
> The output is actually from its brother, on which I am not root.
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?