Hi, > Martin Marconcini wrote:
> I am an 'old' redhat user but a new debian one (i installed > 2.1 today) I recompiled kernel to 2.2.18 (which is good enough for my > hardware). Looks like the other posters aren't getting the fact, that you've still running slink (Debian 2.1 which is over two years old now, anyway). There's no /etc/network infrastructure in slink, so you have to configure your network the old way. Substitutute the values below with your actual values. I assume, that your gateway is 10.0.0.1 # ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.6 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 up # route add default gw 10.0.0.1 eth0 The place to automate this in slink is /etc/init.d/network After this, you should be able to reach hosts outside your subnet. The first thing I would do now, is upgrading to potato (Debian 2.2) or even woody (not yet released Debian 2.3), because potato has been the stable release for over half a year now. As a matter of fact, I upgraded my router about two weeks ago from slink to potato and it went totally smooth. Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list file contains the following (substitute woody for potato, if you want the testing release): # This is for Potato deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free And now do an `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade` and enjoy your shining new Debian system. HTH, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e>+++ h-- r- !y+
