Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:34:17PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > > > why does it show auto lo and NOT auto lo eth0 ? > > > > Why would it? 'lo' is the loopback interface. > > s

Re: nvidia driver breaks when rebooting (was: reinstalling/redoing network)

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 25 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > and KDE then starts. > > what is wrong and why doesn't xwindows work when I reboot? > > needless to say I have an NVIDIA GEforce 7300 card.. > > You probably tried to use the Debian nvidia packages at some point and > you did not purge them from yo

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > why does it show auto lo and NOT auto lo eth0 ? > > Why would it? 'lo' is the loopback interface. sorry, I just assumed that eth0 along with lo would come up automatically.. I guess

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:46:37PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > mine looks like: > # cat interfaces > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > why does it show auto lo and NOT auto lo eth0 ? Why would it? 'lo' is the loopback interface

nvidia driver breaks when rebooting (was: reinstalling/redoing network)

2008-02-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 13:27:42 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > You only need to edit one file, /etc/network/interfaces and my guess is > > your setup should just work like this: > > > > ---[ /etc/network/interfaces ]--- > > > > allow-hotplug eth0

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > You only need to edit one file, /etc/network/interfaces and my guess is > your setup should just work like this: > > ---[ /etc/network/interfaces ]--- > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp ok, now I reboot and the network works. but now I ha

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > ii  network-manager                        0.6.5-3                       > >     network management framework daemon > > ii  network-manager-gnome                  0.6.5-3                       > >     > >   > I would get rid of those two, and also

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:42:42AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have 1 network card, and my PC is connected to my netgear router ( > 192.168.10.1) > ii network-manager0.6.5-3 > network management framework daemon > ii network-manager-gno

reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
I want to redo my network setup, as it seems to be hosed beyond my capacity to fix it. This is my day-to-day home system, so I'm afraid to delete everything and NOT have network access. Last time we talked ( and I hijacked a thread on newuser-network) the suggestion was made to remove a