I solved it the Microsoft way, was Re: ethernet not working

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Wed May 4 04:04:38 UTC 2005


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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