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Posted: July 28 2007,15:34 QUOTE
Hello, I'm back.

I have tryed that ifconfig line that you suggestted but unfortunately only got this respoonse

SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device

I did try replacing eth0 with eth1 and 2 in case the adaptor had been IDed oddly but with the same results.

Is the IP address you gave in your example important or is it an example to replace with what my router shoud have issued? I have tryed both ways but with the same results.

I then try "ifconfig" with no further arguments so see if it gave a sytax reminder but got an output starting as follows

lo          Link encap:Local loopback
            inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

Then some stuf about packets, errors, Byets, etc that were all 0.

I have had another scour of the Wiki and found the following
article which I missed before as it seemed to be about installation. Some of the first part mentions "ifconfig" -- is this what I am trying to do?

Just for backgroung. My ISP issues a fixed WAN IP. My router collects this form their servers and does NAT. It issues a local IP for the ethernet port by DHCP but this is always the same as I only have one PC connected. Windows picks this up by DHCP  also the subnet mask. The router handles DNS.

Hope this is't too confusing -- I am still rather "week" on networking after moving on from dial-up.
Thanks again
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Posted: Aug. 02 2007,15:13 QUOTE
Hello

Has ayone got any ides on this.

I tryed comands in the form
ifconfig eth0  <<<<<IP reqired  >>>> netmask <<<< mask required >>>>
but both comands report no such device.

I have been googling this as well ad have tryed udhcpcd, dchclient etc to try and get an IP via DHCP as I do in Windows but none of the clients I have seen mentioned seem to be icluded in DSL-N. There is a button on the control panel that says somethig about DHCP but it dosn't seem to do anything for me -- or I'm not using it right, I don't realy kow what I'm doing here but would like to learn.

Thanks for any further sugestions.
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Posted: Aug. 03 2007,06:56 QUOTE
hi helpme:
The dhcp client in DSL is "/sbin/pump".
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Posted: Aug. 03 2007,15:04 QUOTE
Hello

Do you meen that I type

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/sbin/pump


at the prompt in a terminal window after loading the net driver with "modprobe"? Does "pump" need any arguments etc?

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Posted: Aug. 03 2007,15:16 QUOTE
pump -i eth0

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