On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Simon Slater <pyevet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > G'day all, > I'm stuck again, but with my efforts fragmented over the past couple > of weeks I'm sure I've missed something simple. Here's the situation. > > After upgrading a laptop from F7-8 the wired network connected without > hassle. I wanted to wipe the slate clean, however and installed F8 from > scratch. /etc/hosts has the other computers in the lan with 192.168.0 > IP's as it had with the upgrade. eth0 is up but wants to use 169.254. > IP's which I thought zeroconf setup but zeroconf is not running. > Network manager is running (networking and wireless enabled) and reports > connected to the wired network, network service is not running. > > I cannot ping any of the 192.168.0 IP's (network unreachable) from the > laptop, nor can I ping the 169.254 address it has taken for itself. > Under >Places>Network there is an icon for SFTP File Transfer ( which I > did not put there, nor can I delete it) which would connect to that box, > until today. > > How do I use the 192.168.0 range of addresses and get connected to the > lan? > > Thanks > -- > Regards > Simon > 169.254.*.* is assigned when a DHCP server cannot be reached. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3330.html Max -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
