   | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope | | Lost Network Connection from Linux box A friend and I got Linux Lycros (?) installed on an old PC, then he did all the configuring etc. We had connection to my LAN and the Internet. Recently for no known reason wqe lost connection.
The cable is still connected to PC and router, and it looks like the router sees the PC OK.
I cannot see the Linux box from my PC's Network Neoghborhood though.
Any suggestions on where to go next? I am pretty much a newbie to Linux, althougth I do have a basic understanding of commands etc.
Thanks
John | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope | | Not sure if this will help or not, but here is an error I just found: Quote: |
Unable to load NetScape Plugin for file/usr/share/RedmondLinux/viewlets/desktop.swf
| Thanks again for any help.  | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope | | No help?  |  | Distinguished Member with 14,988 posts. | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 1265 Lombardi Ave Experience: IIAHYAYCESA,YAADA! | | Well at least post the results of ifconfig | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope | | Can you give me a hand on getting the results?
Like I said, I am mostly a newbie to Linux. | | | Distinguished Member with 14,988 posts. | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 1265 Lombardi Ave Experience: IIAHYAYCESA,YAADA! | | Open up a shell prompt and type ifconfig | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope | | Can I include an output command that will write it to a text file on a floppy that I can bring to this PC? | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope | | I'm having trouble getting to a shell prompt, but I did stumble into "Interfaces" and see that the neither the Ethernet nor the Loopback are enabled. Is that a problem? | | | Distinguished Member with 14,988 posts. | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 1265 Lombardi Ave Experience: IIAHYAYCESA,YAADA! | | I dont run a gui, everything is command line for me. A shell prompt is similar to the command prompt in Windows 2000/XP. Would be nice if you could get to there. You can redirect output to a text file in linux the same way you do at a Windows Command prompt.
command > somefile.txt
try
ifconfig eth0 up | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope |
14-Jan-2004, 12:13 PM
#10 | I'll see what I can do to get to a command line. In the meantime do you think I should try to "Enable" the Ethernet card and "Loopback"? | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope |
14-Jan-2004, 12:34 PM
#11 | Ok, I got the ifconfig to run and it showed no errors.
It appears to show NIC operating as well as the Loop-back.  | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope |
14-Jan-2004, 12:35 PM
#12 | Using this command > somefile.txt do you know the output command to run it to the floppy destination off the top of your head?
Edit I did try the up command and got permission (or access) denied.
Last edited by bassetman : 14-Jan-2004 12:41 PM.
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14-Jan-2004, 12:40 PM
#13 | Did it show you all your IP address information. IP addresss, subnet mask, broadcast. etc...
While you have a shell prompt open, try pinging an ip address on your lan and one that is on the internet.
here is yahoo's
ping 66.218.71.198
Then try pinging a domain name.
ping yahoo.com | | | Distinguished Member with 14,988 posts. | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 1265 Lombardi Ave Experience: IIAHYAYCESA,YAADA! |
14-Jan-2004, 12:43 PM
#14 | Quote: Originally posted by bassetman:
Using this command > somefile.txt do you know the output command to run it to the floppy destination off the top of your head?
Edit I did try the up command and got permission (or access) denied. | Assuming that your floppy is mounted......
ifconfig > /mnt/floppy/somefile.txt | | | Moderator - Gone, but never forgotten with 48,307 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Great White North (WI) Experience: Getting somewhere I hope |
14-Jan-2004, 12:44 PM
#15 | Tried, network unreachable. |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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