On Sunday 23 July 2006 17:36, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 7/23/06, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 July 2006 21:07, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > I had some small issues such as a loss of power in the middle of the up
> > > grade (dog dived under computer table and shut down UPS due to thunder
> > > noise, just as well of not had UPS... Now dog can not push against UPS
> > > switch B-b;;;;;;;;;) Anyhow after recovering from that I got 10.1 in
> > > there, and after it all my desktop came up, and all looked OK until I
> > > tried to get on the net. Found that 10.1 found my interface and I was
> > > able after a while to find that dhcpcd-test wlan0 would finally show it
> > > getitng all of the dhcp data, but when I did a ifconfig wlan0 there was
> > > not IP address shown, even though dhcpcd-test DID show one assigned.. I
> > > had to manually go in and use ifconfig to attach the address to wlan0.
> > > At that point I had to go in and do a manual route add default gw...
> > > Now I can ping things out side of my local network... BUT if I try to
> > > use the browser there is no communications from the browser to the IP
> > > stack it looks like. I have had to deal with the route add for ever and
> > > ever (seem that they can not get that to work for some reason, have to
> > > do it manually) but now all of this...
> > >
> > > Anyone have any idea of what is going on? I thought maybe it was
> > > permissions, but does not look that way...
> >
> > Standardly check ifconfig for IP, then netstat -nr for default route,
> > then resolv.conf for dns. At that point you are usually up.
> >
> > With multiple interfaces's verify that the GW is on the right I/F.
> >
> > If you can ping outside but not use names your dns is wrong.
> >
> > One thing with SuSE/Novell is that you have to go through a few more
> > steps to add IP, GW, host name and DNS.
> >
> > Now if you are runing DHSCP it should come automatically. Again it should
> > be OK with one interface. There has been issues with some dhcp daemons
> > not recognizing the dhcp server, but I doubt it very much with 10.1. --
>
> When the machine comes up here are the steps I have to go through to
> get it on line.
> ifconfig wlan0
> Shows the device is there but does not report a assigned address
> dhcpcd-test wlan0
> After several tries, finally showed all of the usual data.
> ifconfig wlan0
> Still shows no IP address
> I fixed it manually doing ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.201
> route
> does not show the default route
> after several route commands I do a route add default gw 192.168.1.1
> NOW I have internet access, but I am trying to figure out what each one of
> these processes is not passing the data on to the next, I still have to
> have the DNS addresses manually entered into good old resolv.conf as those
> do not get passed on from the dhcpcd info to resolv.conf.
> In my view this isssue has got worse than it was under 10.0, the other
> stuff appears better, seems I see that other apps are more responsive, I
> just would like to know why the different pieces of the network handling
> can not seem to talk, or have I not done something correctly?
Wait a minute! Are you trying to configure a wireless I/F to the dsl/cable
modem? Or do you have a router that connects to the dsl/cable modem, and
subsequently connect to the router?
--Steve Szmidt
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