Can you type "ifconfig" into a konsole and paste the results here please? It appears as though you haven't supplied a valid DNS server address.
Replying to the message sent by Dan Davison on Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:07:07 -0600 (CST), received at 09:53:41 on 18/11/2003. Dan Davison wrote: >Dear debian users, could someone put me out of my trying-to-get-online >misery please? > >I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network. > >The network settings I am using work under windows on my other partition, >and worked on another machine running debian with a 2.2.xx kernel. > >I am running kernel 2.4.22. If this is unwise for someone as >linux-incompetent as me, my excuse is that it seemed like I needed it to >have support for my ATI radeon 9600 graphics card (of which more on >another post i'm afraid) and my SiS 900 fast ethernet card. > >dmesg includes >SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xx800 >ifup eth0 gives >eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex >as does going through dpkg-reconfigure etherconf (whether I choose dhcp or >not) which all sounded quite positive to me. > >However, all my attempts to ssh or ping or lynx fail with complaints about >name resolution, even using an IP address rather than host.domain, e.g: > >> ping arizona.princeton.edu [in my domain] >ping: unknown host arizona.princeton.edu > >> ping harper.uchicago.edu >ping: unknown host harper.uchicago.edu > >> ping 128.135.12.7 [harper's IP address] >PING 128.135.12.7 (128.135.12.7): 56 data bytes >ping: sendto: Network is unreachable >ping: write 128.135.12.7 64 chars, ret = -1 >............. >............. > >I tried >> route add default gw 140.180.128.1 which gave >SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable > >and by the way >> ifdown eth0 >cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory >Does that matter? > >There seemed to be some posts in the archives from people having similar >problems with recent kernels, but no obvious resolution that I came >accross. However I expect it's much more my fault than the kernel's. > >cheers, > >Dan > > >---------------------------------- >Dan Davison >davisonATuchicago.edu >http://home.uchicago.edu/~davison/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
