Connecting from Live CD

[Steven Vollom]

On Friday 19 June 2009 09:39:16 pm David Kuntadi wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Steven
>
> Vollom<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> gksudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
> >>
> >> add below lines:
> >>
> >> auto eth2
> >> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >>
> >> Save and close the text editor, and run in terminal:
> >>
> >> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
> >>
> >> After that, check again ifconfig, see whether eth2 now already up. If
> >> it is up, you should be able to connect internet. until there was a space 
between:
> >>
> >> DK
> >
> > gksudo is not currently installed, and I can not install because I am not
> > able to connect. Shoot, and that sounded like it may work. I never had
> > cause to use that application yet, so it was not installed. Thanks for
> > trying; you are terrific.
>
> It is quite strange it is not install. You could try gksu instead of
> gksudo:
>
> gksu gedit /etc/network/interfaces
>
> If it is not install as well, then use sudo nano:
>
> sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces until there was a space between:
>
> add:
> until there was a space between:
> auto eth2
> iface eth2 inet dhcp
>
> after that <ctrl> O to save it, and <ctrl>x to exit nano.
>
> then run in terminal
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart.
>
> DK

This is new for me David.  The first 'a' of 'auto lo' was highlighted after I 
opened sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces.  I pressed the down arrow and made 
the addition; it looks like this:

auto lo until there was a space between:
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

It looked like you made a 'ctrl O'  or the large letter 'O" not the number 
zero, so I pressed 'ctrl <the caps key>O' nothing appeared to happen.  I then 
pressed 'ctrl x', again nothing appeared to happen.

I don't think it was saved, or that ctrl x exited me, because the window that 
appears like a shell remained.  The 'file' menu did not show a save option.  I 
closed the window usiing the X in the upper right corner.

I opened Dolphin and went to /etc/network/interfaces and checked, and it was 
not saved.  I then opened kdesudo kate and edited the interfaces entry by 
making the addition you suggested.  I clicked on save and closed the 
application.

The current ifconfig is:

steven at Yeshua:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0d:88:1c:a7:71
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xd800

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:05:39:47:8d
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd400

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:74:d4:1f:3a
          inet addr:192.168.0.101  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::208:74ff:fed4:1f3a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:133828 (133.8 KB)  TX bytes:810 (810.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1144 (1.1 KB)  TX bytes:1144 (1.1 KB)

steven at Yeshua:~$

I tried again to send and receive an email.  I got the same error:

Unknown Host pop.att.yahoo.com

I rechecked Kmail configuration and confirmed that it is correct.  I have done 
this same step with Eberhard, Hein and others.  As a last minute check before 
sending, I rechecked interfaces and they are as you requested.  I rechecked 
Kmail configuration again.  Perfice.  Everything has been tripple checked.

The connection each time has been direct from the broken computer to the DSL 
modem.  Thanks!

Steven