Re: Unable to connect to network

On Sunday 20 May 2007 16:49:46 Jeff D wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote:
Hi
I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another
thread so it probably got lost.

Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany,
Iceweasel and Apt all report that "network is unreachable" or "unable to
connect to network". Network Setting shows quite clearly that eth0
is 'active'. Ping is positive. What am I missing? I have a wired
connection to an adsl router. My laptop running Xubuntu works perfectly
on the same connection. (not at the same time!)

Thanks to Roberto I have tried /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route -n with the
following results

pete@desktop:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:18:A9:C4:3B
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea9:c43b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1890 (1.8 KiB)  TX bytes:4453 (4.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:177

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:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

pete@desktop:~$ /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0    
   0 eth0 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0
       0 eth0

Since my first posting I have now installed Xubuntu on a separate
partition on this machine and it works perfectly.

Any help or comments welcome please.

Regards
Pete Redwood
predwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

how are you getting your IP address? static? dhcp? Does your laptop and
this machine share the same ip? does name resolution work?

DHCP. Laptop has its own IP address. No idea about name resolution. Not
certain how to check it

In response to Andrew, not certain if resolv.conf is getting updated. Once
again not certain how to check. Ping was by IP address. Difficult to be
pro-active since I cannot email from the Debian partition. I have to check
everything then go back to the Xubuntu partition to email.


--
Regards
Pete Redwood
predwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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