[wplug] ftp server setup - okay, maybe not...

[Matthew Danish]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:32:54PM -0700, Elwin Green wrote:
> 1) no-can-do apt-get:
> I said:
> #apt-get install (packagename)
> 
> My system replied:
> Reading Package Lists...Done
> Building Dependency Tree...Done
> E: Couldn't find package (packagename)
> 
> It is, at least, being perfectly consistent. Same
> result each time.

That's a mistake on my part, I forgot to mention that you need to run
`apt-get update' every so often to fetch package listings.

> 2) auto-eth0 no-go:
> I've rebooted several times since adding "auto eth0"
> to the interfaces file. Each time, pinging an outside
> address has worked only after I did this:
> #ifup eth0 - just as the "auto eth0" were not in the
> interfaces file at all.
> 
> At boot time, the startup output includes a couple of
> lines about setting Rx mode on eth0, and several lines
> that begin with DHCPDISCOVER - might either of these
> have something to do with the failure of "auto eth0"?

This is a bit strange.  When are the drivers for the network card being
loaded into the kernel?  Though it shouldn't matter...

Perhaps DHCP is having some trouble.  You can experiment with other
clients, I suppose.  Try installing pump, dhcp-client, dhcpcd.  You can
probably find out what you have already with `dpkg -l | grep -i dhcp'.

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