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Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 14:35 +0000, Lesley Anne Binks wrote:
> Yes I am fully aware of the Session Manager.

Maybe, but you didn't say KDE wasn't appearing in the session list :)

> Network Manager under Gnome via the nm-applet appears to be reporting
> the machine to be connected via the link-local address (i.e. connected
> to itself?) 

No, link local means "local to the ethernet segment" - basically, it's a
bit like DHCP except you don't need a DHCP server and the machines work
it out amongst themselves.

> while the default route out from the box consistently fails to be set
> - despite it's existence in the interfaces file for eth0.

That's static configuration, which NetworkManager won't touch - I would
imagine it's a simple misconfiguration or something. My Debian machine
has this in /etc/network/interfaces :

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.3.10
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.3.1

Check all the spellings and stuff - it's likely something really simple.

If it's not in there, it's something deeper and interfaces(5) ought to
help.

Cheers,

Alex.


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