[Wylug-help] networking laptop woes

[Jim Jackson]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Mike Goodman wrote:

> Many responses, thanks, guys. Unfortunately, I have no way of copying
> the results you are asking from the commands you are suggesting and many
> are very long. There is an overlap of what you are asking for, so
> there's not too much to do. On my way out to a meeting now and will try
> and pick up a memory stick while I'm gone - out of blank CDs even, so no
> way of getting stuff off the laptop without setting up a modem
> connection, not too confident that will work either and no time to do it
> now.
>
> I set an IP address using ifconfig 192.168.2.150 - shows up in ifconfig
> eth0, and now the Bcast and Mask look good (192.168.2.255 and
> 255.255.255.0) but I'm still getting Destination Host Unreachable with
> ping. Output of route command shows no gateway.

That probably means your ether hardware is all ok.

There's no gateway because non has been configured. Usually DHCP returns 
it.

It does look like you are not getting a response from your DHCP server.

Jim

>
> Hopefully, I'll have a memory card when I return and will also have a
> good poke around to see what log files I can find, to see if they
> uncover anything.
>
> Thanks again, C U soon.
>
> Mike
>
>
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