On 1/18/16, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:04:38 -0500
> Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> . . . Okay.
>>
>> The problem may be with dhcp, since xfce has no problem getting to the
>> outside world, but openbox refuses to go any further than localhost.
>>
>> So, does dhcp functionality need to be installed and/or set up
>> separately for openbox?
>>
>> And if so, how?
>>
>
> It should be present in all installations, independent of window
> manager. It is a dependency of several networking packages.
>
> The current package in all distributions since squeeze, I believe, is
> isc-dhcp-client.
>
> Does /sbin/ifconfig show the network interfaces you expect to see (i.e.
> not just lo)?
>
> --
> Joe
>
>
Hi, Joe.
1) isc-dhcp-client is installed. Apt-get says that it "is already
the newest version". (Debian 8 stable, 64-bit, with security, updates,
and backports, on standard x86 machine).
2) Yes, /sbin/ifconfig shows:
eth0
lo
wlan0
as expected.
Specifically,
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15104 (14.7 KiB) TX bytes:15104 (14.7 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: ::226:5eff:fe90:6885/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::226:5eff:fe90:6885/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: ::e452:3eab:1f59:dab3/64 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3156391 (3.0 MiB) TX bytes:851035 (831.0 KiB)
I need to connect through wlan0 (and can from xfce), which is how I
can send this email.
The problem doesn't seem to be the wireless driver, etc. In openbox I
can ping localhost (127.0.0.1), but can't ping the router or beyond,
which is why I am guessing that somehow xfce is set up for dhcp, but
openbox is not.
(btw, putting nm-applet into ~/.config/openbox/autostart did not seem
to solve the problem).
Question: maybe does ~/.config/openbox/autostart need to be owner:
root and group: root?
