[Wolves] OT: Windows is 25

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 18:21:05 UTC 2008


2008/11/29 James Turner <james at turnersoft.co.uk>:
> Kevanf1 wrote:
>
>> I'd actually love to run a live CD and would without a second thought
>> but for the fact that for some reason no live CD can access the web on
>> this PC.  No problem if I pop a hard drive in and do a full install
>> (I've used small capacity drives for this in the past) all network is
>> fine.  It's just live CD's don't want to know :-(
>
> If you have a few minutes to spare for it, try the following series of
> commands:
>
> route -n
>    (should be an entry listed for destination 0.0.0.0)
> nslookup www.google.com
>    (should list various IP addresses for aforementioned site)
> ping www.google.com
>    (should indicate a response)
> telnet www.google.com 80
>    (should indicate that it connected to the host)
>
> If you want to post the output of these to the list then someone may
> well be able to help get to the bottom of it.
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>

Cheers James I shall give it a go.  It looks ike rain next week which
means I'll be stuck inside (no garage to work in).  I've got the
latest Ubuntu on live CD so I can try that.
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire



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