[Tfug] qwest high speed internet and linux

Harry McGregor micros at osef.org
Sun Jan 21 13:07:02 MST 2007


Hi,

What does the output of ifconfig -a show?

Also, dmesg | grep eth

and you can try running "pump -i eth0" or "dhclient eth0" and see if
either of those get you an ip address.

                    Harry

Joel Howard wrote:
> Robert Hunter wrote:
>   
>>> When I do ipconfig I get command not found, whether I sudo or not.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Try 'ifconfig' or '/sbin/ifconfig'
>>
>>   
>>     
> Thanks! It's been a while. I got it "up" by doing ifconfig eth0 up. It's
> running and I can ping localhost and self. Still no go on loading
> 192.168.0.1. Tried cycling the power on the modem and
> unplugging/replugging the phone line but that didn't do anything. The
> green DSL light went back to flashing, and the internet light went out.
> I do have bind installed, though ps aux shows no processes with dhcp in
> their title. Guess I need to figure out how to start the dhcp deamon?
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