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. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "There are three kinds of people, those who can count and those who can't."
