On Friday 22 April 2005 00:07, Rony Bill wrote:
Dear Friends,
I have been trying to figure my way around in debian since last few days and have hit some trouble spots.
Is it the sarge dvd? or is it woody.
The modem dials and tries to establish connection in wvdial but the last ok does not come and it disconnects. Kppp would not start in gui as it did not allow user access. Om going through the doc pages I found that it allows only those users who are in the 'dip' group. So I did the usermod -G dip user_name and got kppp running in user gui, but it does not detect my ext. modem on ttys0. The modem query fails.
set it manually to /dev/ttyS0 . note the capital S. Btw which modem.
There is no ifcfg* file in debian. How does one setup the eth0?
append the following at the end of /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1
then run /etc/init.d/networking restart. ifconfig should show your network.
your network configuration is in /etc/network/interfaces
The sound system was not detected but the first time I played a vcd in totem media player, it gave picture and lower volume sound.
You must have complete details of your hardware. What sound chipset.
Also which boot option did you select while installing.
rgds jtd
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
Is it the sarge dvd? or is it woody.
It is sarge, the one you gave me. I had installed it the very same night.
set it manually to /dev/ttyS0 . note the capital S. Btw which modem.
Its an external modem which connects flawlessly in other distros as well as wvdial in debian. But wvdial backs out when I am just waiting for the final ok from the isp. Yes I always use /dev/ttys0. I will check up with the capital S. It is a part of the drop down list itself. I got debian to allow root to use gui too. And user can now use kppp.
append the following at the end of /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1
then run /etc/init.d/networking restart. ifconfig should show your network.
your network configuration is in /etc/network/interfaces
Thanks, I will do it.
You must have complete details of your hardware. What sound chipset.
Can't recollect the sound chipset, but its an Intel original D845 GEBV2 mb with P4 2.4 Ghz. The sound part may get solved once I try out the ALSA drivers from the net.
Also which boot option did you select while installing.
Mbr load. It detected all my other oses and beautifully gave all entries in the grup loader. This is the only distro so far I have used that does not cancel out others in the grub.
Regards,
Rony.
Dear Friends,
Some progress made in the debian distro. While trying to change my login screen, I noticed that the user could do it in gui but not root, even after entering the password. So I checked the properties of the login screen shortcut and saw 'gksu' (switch user) before the command. On removing this entry, root could use the program too.
In the 'root' gui, I was able to query my modem in kppp and even connect to the net. However before kppp started it gave the /etc/resolv.conf missing error. An empty /etc/resolv.conf was 'touch'ed. Still there is no acess to any website.
In 'user' gui, I cannot query the modem in kppp even though the user is in the dip secondary group. So the kppp shortcut was modified with a 'gksu' before the kppp command. This asked for root passwd and then connection was successfull. However there is no website access.
The /etc/resolv.conf has dns server entries of my isp after I get connected but the sites don't get resolved. Any tips?
Regards,
Rony.
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
append the following at the end of /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1
then run /etc/init.d/networking restart. ifconfig should show your network.
your network configuration is in /etc/network/interfaces
The nic was setup successfully. Thanks !!
Regards,
Rony.
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