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[Bob Schmidt]

No?


On 10/7/05 1:05 PM, "Vram" <lamsokvr at xprt.net> wrote:

> 
> Have you heard about the sudo thing?
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:56 -0500, Bob Schmidt wrote:
>> I'm trying to edit the file listed below, but it tells me that I'm not the
>> owner. I try to log in as root, and it won't allow me. I know that I am
>> using the correct password to log in as root. Is there anyway to double
>> check the root password? I hat to have to reinstall everything again
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/7/05 12:15 PM, "Sean W" <nameneeded at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bob, you might want to take a look at the following file:
>>> 
>>> /etc/network/interfaces
>>> 
>>> You should see something like this:
>>> 
>>> # The primary network interface
>>> auto eth0
>>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>>> 
>>> If you don't, change it to that.
>>> 
>>> Then restart networking
>>> 
>>> /etc/init.d/networking restart
>>> 
>>> That should set your eth0 to dhcp.
>>> 
>>> Cheers.
>>> 
>>> Bob Schmidt wrote:
>>>> Well, I checked and it is set to DHCP. When I installed ubuntu it did the
>>>> DHCP configuration and passed with no problems. I tried to set a static IP
>>>> but that did not work either. Any other suggestions?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for all the help,
>>>> bob 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/7/05 11:21 AM, "Samuel Toogood" <sam_toogood at athsoc.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Bob Schmidt wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well here's what it says for eth0
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Link encap:etherenet  Hwaddr 00:00:86:52:36:99
>>>>>> inet6addr: fe80:200:86ff:ffe52:3699/64 Scope:Link
>>>>>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>>>>>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>>>> TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>>>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>>>>>> Interrupt:3 Base Address:0x300
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It also has a lo areas as well
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Bob
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looks like you haven't got an IP address set. If you go to the System
>>>>> menu and select Administration -> Networking (might be slightly
>>>>> different, as I'm running 5.04), and then click on Properties for eth0,
>>>>> what do you get? Is your router acting as a dhcp server? If so, just set
>>>>> the 'configuration' selector to dhcp and it should work. If not, do you
>>>>> know what IP address you should be using.
>>>>> 
>>>>> HTH.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sam
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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