PreUpgrade help, please

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 12/21/2009 09:03 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 21 December 2009 12:46:06 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
>> What does ifconfig show?
>>
> Hmm - not good.  No ipv4 address for either cabled or wireless.  I haven't
> tried to do anything with the wireless part - I know I need firmware first.
>
> I ran system-config-network again, and re-set it to static ip, then restarted
> the network service.
>
> Now running ifconfig shows only the loopback stanza.  Ping tells me that the
> network is unreachable.
>
> Funny - I've been using Linux for almost 8 years, and never had an internet
> problem before - in fact I got it working with RH5, in my early
> experimentation days, some 10 year ago.
>


If you know an IP you can use on your network try something like this:

ifcfg eth0 ip/mask
route add default gw "gateway ip"


> Anne
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