New to Ubuntu

[SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux]

Hello
I am new to Ubuntu (new installed 7.10) too ;-)
It runs quite nice but I am still struggling with proper NW settings !

The laptop has 2 NIC's: Wired & Wireless and all IP addresses are
static !!

How would a Linux / Ubuntu NW expert manually setup from scratch ???

I would like to setup as following:

Wireless: 192.168.xyz.222 static plus the essid
Wired:	  192.168.xyz.232 static

I intend to set / switch from either wireless to wired and vice-versa
myself depending on the needs in the respective environments !!!

Your advice and guidance is very appreciated.

TIA and best regards
svobi




On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 21:07 -0400, David Curtis wrote:
> bill purvis wrote:
> > Thanks for all the responses to my newbie problem.
> > I have another - I have just had to reboot my
> > system and when it came up the network was in
> > a weird state. This machine is networked via a server
> > running Mandrake which also acts as firewall etc.
> > trying to 'ping' my server I got the old 'network unreachable'
> > error message. 
> > Running ifconfig eth0 gave:
> > 
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:D1:BB:37:4E  
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:d1ff:febb:374e/64 Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
> >           RX bytes:3727 (3.6 KiB)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)
> >           Interrupt:19 Base address:0x6000 
> > 
> > No, IP4 address. Running the System/Administration/Network
> > tool showed the correct IP4 static address. I changed this
> > slightly and ifconfig then showed the new IP4 address.
> > Changing it back to what I had originally set it resulted
> > in the network then being operational again. I'd really
> > prefer not to have to go through this whenver I reboot.
> > Anyone any ideas?
> > 
> > Bill
> 
> Set up dhcpd on your mandrake server/firewall/gateway. Serve IP 
> addresses to your desktop machine which should use dhcp3-client by 
> selecting Applications/System/Network -> wired connection (assuming) -> 
> properties and selecting 'automatic configuration (dhcp)'.
> 
> I'd give you help with the dhcp server but its been years since I set up 
> a firewall/gateway. Anyone remember oxygen/LEAF?
>