Suddenly can't get on net anymore!?

Hauser

Networking used to work perpectly ok, but suddenly it doesn't anymore; in fact, not just my gentoo system, my mdk9.1,winXP are not working either. Now the only OS on my machine that functions well in this respect is win98SE, I can't believe this!

I'm running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.2-rc1, here's some messages I get:

Helena · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 9:14 am Post subject:

Looks like a router/DHCP problem to me. How many other machines are on your network? Also, you could try using static IP addressing and see if that helps. Tell me if you want help with that, but first post the output of

buto · Apprentice Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 155

I agree with Helena.
Or maybe the nameservers you use are down, and were up when you tried with 98? :lol:

(oops sorry just the thought that W98 is the only system working ...)
let's see your /etc/resolv.conf so we can try to ping your dns ? (unless it's dhcp of course)

kallamej · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject:

You shouldn't have both iface_eth0= lines uncommented. Not sure about the consequences, though. And it doesn't explain why WinXP doesn't work.
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Hauser · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys. There's only one machine at my home which is connected to my ISP through cable modem using DHCP. All the OSes are on the different partitions of the same machine. Anyway, some more messages:

kallamej · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

You may have to append some option to dhcpcd_eth0. The first that comes to mind is -h <hostname>. I haven't seen this for a while, but I know there are threads about it. Of course, man dhcpd is also your friend if you want to turn on some more logging.
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Helena · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:17 pm Post subject:

Hauser · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 7:12 pm Post subject:

OK, I opened up MSDOS terminal and typed 'ipconfig' to get some ip info. I did some static IP configuration and now I'm online. Thanks a lot everyone. But what if my ISP allocates a different IP to me next time, would that affect my networking again? Why is that win98 still works? As far as I can remember, the technician from my ISP didn't do anything in my win98, he just set up DHCP in winxp and nothing else.

utabintarbo · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject: weird sh*t

I, too, am having a similar problem. New thread here.

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