From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ggz8H-0006Gg-F9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:43:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA67egLn015930; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 07:40:42 GMT Received: from fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (mx5.mun.ca [134.153.232.57]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA67cRwa027203 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 07:38:28 GMT Received: from minnie.esd.mun.ca (minnie.esd.mun.ca [134.153.37.4]) by fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kA5Mtgxj024830 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 19:25:42 -0330 Received: from minnie.esd.mun.ca (minnie.esd.mun.ca [134.153.37.4]) by minnie.esd.mun.ca (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kA5Mtffa017179 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 19:25:42 -0330 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start References: <454E098D.2040807@neo.rr.com> From: Roger Mason Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:25:41 -0330 In-Reply-To: <454E098D.2040807@neo.rr.com> (John Blinka's message of "Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:55:57 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.001005 (2006-08-29) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=3.1.5 X-Spam-Report: -10 USER_IN_WHITELIST From: address is in the user's white-list * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.153.232.57 X-Archives-Salt: c7e44e0b-d485-49d6-804d-284ccb59a619 X-Archives-Hash: 0c8158085ba707a3ae76d323136988f8 John Blinka writes: > The laptop is old enough that the ethernet connection is by a Xircom > pcmcia card, and this > works well except for ntp-client. The claim that "net.eth0 could not be > started" puzzles > me since, after the machine boots, ifconfig gives > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:A4:FE:EC:4C > inet addr:192.168.1.105 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 I may be leading you astray, but that IP address looks like one for a private net. Is ntp-client looking on that private net for a time-server? Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list