Re: [PLUG] net install on old pentium trouble

[John Lavin <jlavin@ccil.org>]

Jesse-

> 1) Setup the external network card as DHCP or static depending on your
> ISP's instruction.
Yes - tried both DHCP as well as static.  When I'm home, I could post the
specific errors, but DHCP tries polling for a configuration, but doesn't
get a response.  When I set as static, I time out attempting to get to the
debian servers.

If I look at ifconfig eth0, the settings look exactly as my other
desktops, same thing with route.  The statistics show only errors though,
all other packets are 0.

 > 2) Test outbound connectivity, PING www.yahoo.com
>     If it works, you have verified DNS name resolution, and connectivity.
>     IF NOT, then the network card may not be compatible.
PING www.billjonas.com has been attempted, and get could not resolve name
so I try to ping the ip address of the gateway and get no response.  since
the install disks for woody don't include a browser, I use wget to my
gateway's webserver and get a nice seg fault, so that was no help
either...

Thanks,
-john


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