[gentoo-user] Re: Network connection repeatedly failing!

[Jim Ramsay <i.am@jimramsay.com>]

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Samuel Baldwin wrote:

> When I run ifconfig, I get this:
> lo             Link encap:Local Loopback
>                 inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>                 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436 Metric:1
>                 RX Packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>                 TX Packets:28 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
>                 collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 0
>                 RX bytes: 3080 (3.0 KB) TX bytes:3080 (3.0kb)

This is just the inernal loopback device, not eth0.  Try 'ifconfig -a'
and see if your system even knows about your eth0 interface.

If it's not listed by 'ifconfig -a', you need to load the right kernel
module to get it there.

If it's listed but not up, a command like 'ifconfig eth0 up 10.0.0.100'
and 'route add default 10.0.0.1' may do for now.

> Also, does anyone know of a tool that allows you to play audio from a
> terminal? Basically, sending audio to standard audio out? I'd like to
> be able to listen to music (all .ogg and .mp3, if it makes a
> difference), while in runlevel 3. This is a side comment, and do not
> waste time answering this/looking it up if you don't know off hand.

I use 'media-sound/mpd' which is a mp3/ogg playing daemon (server), then
one of the front-ends (media-sound/ncmpc is a good console client) to
set up your playlist.  http://www.musicpd.org for more info and a list
of other frontends.

-- 
Jim Ramsay
"Me fail English?  That's unpossible!"

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