From: Josef Lowder > On 3/24/09, Matt Graham wrote: >> Are you on dialup? If you've got proper bandwidth, >> "dhclient eth0" or "dhcpcd eth0" should get a dynamic IP >> address provided eth0 is plugged in to something. > I have DSL wireless and it was working fine before the crash. > Even now, when I boot up, I see lights blinking on the 3-COM > pci card, but since I can't see anything on F7 I can't use the > wireless connection that I think I have. > And I don't know how to establish that connection on one of the > other F1-F6 command-line only terminals. First find out what your NIC is called. "iwconfig" should list all NICs, and the wired ones will say "no wireless extensions". So you might see: eth0: no wireless extensions eth1: 802.11b/g ESSID "blah" Mode managed TxPower 89 FooBar 23 [more settings like that] lo: no wireless extensions Then, you do "dhcpcd eth1" if you have no encryption on and don't care which AP you connect to. Things get more complex when you use WEP/WPA, but say which one you're using, and I or someone else will be able to tell you what's up. Really, I'd take a length of Cat5 and plug the thing in, rather than deal with the hassle of wireless for this reasonably short experiment. >> Fix the Net access and apt-get upgrade, and >> you should be good. (I Could Be Wrong.) > Wish I could. The stuff above may help. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss