command for downloading a package to save

[Billie Erin Walsh]

David McGlone wrote:
> On Sunday 14 June 2009 05:17:09 pm Lisi Reisz wrote:
>   
>> On Sunday 14 June 2009 20:37:07 Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>>     
>>> After you return from your break, please issue this command
>>> on your laptop:
>>> sudo ifconfig
>>>
>>> usually, one of the interfaces will have an address
>>> beginning with 192.168.x.y
>>>       
>> Eberhard -
>>
>> Stephen said that he cannot connect through his router, but only directly
>> through his DSL modem.  If this is correct, and if the term DSL modem means
>> the same thing his side of the pond as it does here (by no means a forgone
>> conclusion), his laptop must be connecting directly with his ISP, probably
>> with a dynamic IP, and it is not going to tell us anything about his
>> network.
>>     
>
> It might not reveal much, but it will give us a starting point. It'll help us 
> figure out whether he is calling his modem a router or he actually has a 
> router.
>
> I used to think the way you do, and I failed the A+ Cert 1 time because of 
> that thinking.
>
> After 10 years, I learned to start with the most simplest of problems and work 
> your way up.
>
> A perfect example, last year I got a computer in for repair, I tried turning 
> it on  No fan, no lights, zilch, Nada. My first reaction was the power supply, 
> so I drive 25 minutes to get a new power supply, popped it in and still got 
> zilch, no power, no lights. I assumed they sold me a bad power supply so I 
> returned it, popped in the new one an hour later, still Nada.
>
> Finally I took the faceplate to check the wiring to the power button and found 
> that the plastic "stem" on the power button that pushes the button on the 
> chassis was broken!
>
> So I put the original power supply back in and returned the brand new one once 
> again, replaced the power button on the case and the computer is still working 
> to this day.
>
>
>
>   

Sometimes the simplest problems are the hardest to fix. Simple problems 
are often overlooked because they are so simple.

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