On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:08 +0000, Jonathan Allen wrote: > During the 'init' time it produced the familiar message: > > Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.1.6 [FAILED] Does the computer have more than one network interface, itself? Whether that be wireless and wired, or two of the same. But generally you'd take that error message at face value. Perhaps there is some other device on the network using that address that you're not aware of. Pinging the IP isn't a good test, devices don't have to respond to pings. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
