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ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

LAN automatic settings?

Two days ago I found LAN wire while walking in my dormitory corridor and because I had I lot of free time I tried to go online. I have to say that I do not know anything about that netwok so I could not connect while on  Arch. I tried some settings in rc.conf and they were just bad. At first I thought that line just goes nothere...
Then I booted in Ubuntu and I was online! I know it was smonekind of auto configuration. But how can I set up it on Arch?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: LAN automatic settings?

Use eth0="dhcp" in rc.conf?

ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

Re: LAN automatic settings?

I tried something like that but if I remember right it did not helped. I will try this next time.
AND Any other ideas?

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: LAN automatic settings?

Did you try "something like that" or did you try "it" right how lucke wrote it? This makes a world of difference. And if you did "something" then specify that "something". Really, that isn't quite precise and does not help to find an answer. More verbosity!

Last edited by mucknert (2007-05-18 20:22:25)

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ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

Re: LAN automatic settings?

Okioki I checed my rc.conf now so it looks like I tried:
eth0="dhcp"
So right as lucke said.
Also I tried:
eth0="eth0 10.250.93.82 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.250.93.255"

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: LAN automatic settings?

Have you remembered to "/etc/rc.d/network restart" after setting those?

ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

Re: LAN automatic settings?

Hmm I think I restarted laptop with: shutdown -r now.
I will try to restart network next time. And do everything more carefuly.