Re: [SLUG] pump failed

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 19:29:44 EST


I'm getting an IP address from my router just fine on my other
machines. Win98SE, MacOS9, and Linux variants. It's just this one
sparc I've set up with Debian 2.2r5 from the CD ISOs. I don't know
what could be broken.

Mario

>If you've got roadrunner at home, you've got DHCP unless you are paying not
>to. If pump is failing every time, check to see if the modem's working,
>barring that, you're pretty much on your own as far as TW's concerned. I
>don't usually use pump; I use the dhcp from the ISC (internet software
>consortium). It works pretty well.
>
>Chances are if you can't get an IP, it's either the modem, the line, or the
>NIC. Most modern distros don't screw up the network setup so bad that you
>can't at least get an IP, but it's possible. If this a the machine that's
>dual booting windows, that's probably the problem ;)
>
> Glen
>
>
>On Friday 29 March 2002 14:01, you wrote:
>> I'm running 'pump' at the command prompt as root.
>> It says "Operation failed." and my eth0 doesn't get an IP. I don't
>> know if I was statically addressed earlier or not, but I wasn't able
>> to resolve names, so I decided to investigate pump, and that's how I
>> saw this error upon running it.
>>
>> Second question: Is this supposed to be this way?
>> /etc/resolv.conf -> ../tmp/resolv.conf
>>
>> I don't see a /tmp/resolv.conf anyway.
>>
>> Mario



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