network problems, an update

[Gregory Nowak]

If you want to test via pinging, don't ping yourself, find another
host on the net that allows pings, and use it's ip address instead. If
that works, ping it by name. If that fails, your problem is with your
dns server definition.

Greg


On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:22:10PM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote:
> Hi all. Well, my worst fear is over: Debian does support my network card after all. The problem now is I can't get it to connect
> when I specify dhcp. Just to make sure it worked, I kicked my Windows box off line, and said I wanted Linux to use the ip that my
> windows machine once occupied. Rebooted, (I have got to get out of that habit!) and all was fine. Lynx didn't work, but
> nevertheless I pinged myself twice, and it kept pinging until I hit control C to break the connection. Both times, I got a 0
> percent packet loss and every packet it sent it got back. I don't know if this is a good sign or not, and would like an opinion on
> my progress or, regress. Thanks for your help.
> Jes
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org