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?
