[Wylug-help] Starting a network connection

[Jim Jackson]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 john at bopa.co.uk wrote:

> I've run ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 but can't ping
> anything else on the network.

Are you trying to ping by name or IP address? If you've tried by name, try
by IP address. It _might_ be that your /etc/resolv.conf file doesn't
contain a valid name server, and/or your /etc/hosts file does not have
local lan entries or similar.