[Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

William Case wrote:
> Hi Kevin et al;
> 
> It just got stranger;
> 
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 00:07 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: 
>> William Case wrote:
>>> Although my browsers don't work externally they did find
>>> http://192.168.1.1 which gave me a setup page.  I didn't change anything
>>> but here is the output:
>>>
>>> LAN 
>>> IP Address 192.168.1.1 
>>> Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 
>>> DHCP Server Enabled Firewall Enabled   
>>>
>>> INFORMATION 
>>> System Time 2008/08/05 21:28:28 
>>> System Boot Up Time 00000 days 05:17:37 
>>> Connected Clients 3 
>>> Runtime Code Version V2.00.0042 
>>> Boot Code Version V2.00.32 
>>> LAN MAC Address 00-40-F4-91-17-8C 
>>> WAN MAC Address 00-40-F4-91-17-8D 
>>>
>>>
> 
> On re-boot the script messages still show,  -- "setting NetworkManger
> waiting for network - failed".  Then, "httpd: could not reliably
> determine the servers fully qualified domain name using 127.0.0.1 for
> server name."
> 
> The little NetworkManager gui in my notification panel shows a red
> warning with an x and says "No network connection".
> 
> Epiphany and FireFox, along with Evolution, start offline.  Putting all
> three back online gets them all working.  Here is the strange thing.
> Previously when I put Epiphany and Firefox back online as soon as I
> started them again they went off line immediately.  This time they
> stayed on.  I loaded several fresh pages and everything continued to
> work.

Something else to look at...  What does your network routing look like?
Do you have a proper default route?  If not, you won't be able to get 
beyond your local subnet.

/sin/route

I'm guessing that if NetworkManager isn't doing it right, its not 
getting setup.  If not, you could try:

/sbin/route add -net default gw 192.168.1.1

(I think that's the correct syntax....)

> To answer Kevin.  Yes the bill is paid. I have one other machine running
> Ubuntu with no problem and another on WindowsXP.

I was kidding!

> I just shut down and cold rebooted to be sure before sending this post.
> Every thing is still as above.

Check your network routing tables.  If you don't tell the networking how 
  to get there, it doesn't know.

> A new wrinkle I didn't report, but now Evolution is asking for IP
> account passwords each time I start it.  It had stopped doing that in
> Fedora 9.

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
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