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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Howdy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(a) LINUX TCP/IP address ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My linux desktop can't speak to any other machines
on my network. If I ping from the linux machine, I can see traffic flow past the
other machines (which have LED's on them), but the machines don't recognize the
address as within my limit.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All my systems are in the address range
192.168.132.xy (for TCP/IP), but cannot find where on the linux desktop (or how)
I tell it what address it is to use.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My "/etc/hosts" file (which I assumed was the
answer looks like
....<BR>127.0.0.1
debian localhost loopback<BR>192.168.132.202 debian
localhost<BR>#linux linux<BR>192.168.132.200 nt
nt_server (my DHCP server)<BR>192.168.132.120 os2
os2<BR>192.168.132.98 98 98<BR>192.168.132.48 dos
dos_486<BR>where I modified the linux line (without storing the old address) to
eb the address I wanted it to be, but have since discovered it's supposed to
point to linux on the www.... As I didn't note the address, I can't put it
back.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How is the address given to a linux machine (mine's
the original non-spell checking DEBIAN 2.2.2 as installed on my machine) ? Where
is the LINUX line I deleted supposed to point (each time it boots, it reminds me
of my mistake - telling me it's pointing to a wrong address)... ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(b) Dell Latitude XPi not using Ethernet base
station for TCP/IP</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A second problem - the machine is a DELL Latitude
XPi, but it won't take advantage of the Dell Ethernet base platform (which is
where the LAN cable fits). It's as if a driver needed to tell LINUX to look for
the ethernet card (external to the machine - in it's base) is needed which isn't
on my machine.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Only if I borrow a PCMCIA card cable have I been
able to get the machine to ping at all. While I'm happy to transfer files via
floppy (for printing etc.), any files bigger than a floppy I cannot get off the
machine as I can't get the machine to speak to my others (running DOS, OS/2
& generally old software). The screen, keyboard and other connections are
fine - but the network connection is dead.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My cable is thin ethernet, Grant gave me with the
machine Alloy 10Base2/T Converteor which has lights - nothing at all will light
up from the base station; a borrowed cable connected to the PCMCIA gets traffic
- just it isn't recognized. To me it's a driver problem - forcing the machine to
look outside itself to the base/cradle... but that's an opinion.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help appreciated (either problem)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With Thanks, Chris
Guiver.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>