Viktor: Thanks a lot. At last someone who read the entire message!!! Tonight i will give it a try.
THanks a lot!!! Hope the apt-get works. It should upgrade the entire system??? It won't change the kernel i suppose? Will I have to reboot? Sorry for the newbie questios, but redhat is far more easy! (but I'm starting to love debian) Martin. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Rosenfeld Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:07 AM To: Martin Marconcini Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie Debian Networking Question (perhaps an easy one for a techie!) 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+
