On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/13/2008 03:29:06 PM, Craig White wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 15:08 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> > I'm unable to communicate locally on my very small -:) local >> network. >> > >> > There's a laptop with wired (192.168.10.2) and wireless >> (192.168.10.3) >> > connected to a NetGear router (192.168.10.1). As a consequence of >> these >> > two connections, I got NetworkManager when I installed F10. There >> have >> > been problems with NM in the past, but the setup seems to work >> fine. >> > >> > I'm attempting to add another system with a wireless connection. >> (As >> >> > 192.168.10.4) I was able to ping the new connection, but I couldn't >> get >> > beyond that. >> > >> > Same problems talking _locally_, viz: >> > >> > # telnet 127.0.0.1 >> > Trying 127.0.0.1... >> > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused >> > >> > /var/log/messages: >> > Dec 13 14:59:25 mtranch ntpd[30481]: no servers reachable >> > Dec 13 14:59:53 mtranch ntpd[30481]: synchronized to 66.96.98.9, >> > stratum 2 >> > Dec 13 14:59:53 mtranch ntpd[30481]: time reset -0.336061 s >> > Dec 13 15:01:00 mtranch avahi-daemon[2364]: Joining mDNS multicast >> > group on interface wlan0.IPv4 with address 192.168.10.3. >> > Dec 13 15:01:00 mtranch avahi-daemon[2364]: IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP >> failed: >> > No buffer space available >> > >> > [nothing new from dmesg] >> > >> > This would all seem to point to OpenVPN, added because NM needs it. >> > Unfortunately F10 has v2.1 of OpenVPN and the doc that covers >> setting >> > up configuration (none supplied by the RPM) refers to v2.0 and >> mentions >> > key files that are not included in 2.1 >> > >> > Anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? Other than rpm -e >> > NetworkManager? >> ---- >> lots of disconnected things here... >> >> telnet fails to connect probably because Fedora never installs telnet >> server by default - use ssh for that. >> >> seems as though ntpd reached the server (looks like a clock.redhat >> type >> address) >> >> avahi is for multicast and you probably don't need that so for now >> ignore it. >> >> openvpn for network manager, I'm assuming is an extension to allow >> you >> to use network manager to up/down VPN connections as a user which >> makes >> sense but isn't at all related to what you are trying to do. >> >> network manager is the desired product for most if not all wireless >> network connection management so don't remove it. >> >> If you can ping back and forth, between the two machines, what >> exactly > > Sigh! So much for my careful attempts to diagnose my problems! > > So, here's what I'm trying to do. I've set up a second box with a > wireless connection to my router. I can ping back and fourth. What I > want in the end is an NFS mount over the wireless connect. Is there an > incremental testing procedure (not telnet apparently!) or do I just > need to go and attempt to configure NFS? If you can ping between the two, you should be fine as your network is pretty simple. Just install/configure nfs. system-config-nfs should help and take down your firewall on both machines (system-config-firewall) unless you really need it -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
