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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Prof. Mladen Pavicic wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 10:02:33PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> > Determine the IP address of the router.  Change the final digit to
> > something else.  For instance if you have 192.168.0.1 router IP
>
> It seems that the system nevertheless requires dhcp daemon. Or?
>
> > ifconfig eth0  192.168.0.15
>
> ifconfig eth0  192.168.2.175
> works fine for my router and I can ping it (192.168.2.1
> gives me 0.5 ms response time);
> I can also ping other computers in the local net.

You said something which I interpreted as meaning your router was not 
running a dhcp server.  If it is, just use udhcpc from busybox as the
dhcp client.

I don't recognize anything from your Debian setup.
This mail list is close to dead but maybe someone else will
be able to help you.

> However, I cannot ssh computers in the local net and
> cannot go out to the internet.
> (e.g., ping 8.8.8.8 gives 100% packet loss;
> ssh name AT 192.168.2.X just hangs)
>
> In my other Debian machine in
> /etc/network/interfaces
> there are only two lines
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> and that works fine.
>
> Any idea?
>
> To install any file I would need to make my CD drive
> read CD-R disks. It reads very old read-only CDs but
> I cannot find out how they were formated.
>
> > Have you upgraded the memory to 32MB or 64MB?
> > (I probably have extra 15MB EDO DIMMs.)
>
> I've got 40MB and that is apparently a max for
> ThinkPad 365X. This is OK for BL.

I installed my first basiclinux to a 486 with about 12MB memory.

> > How do you plan to use this computer?
>
> E-mails and textual browsing (lynx).

Good uses.

BL comes with a text-only old version of links.

I can view images with framebuffer fbjpeg or svgalib-based zgv (on old 
enough hardware), in lynx.

> Best,
>
> Harry.
>
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've got BasicLinux 3.3 installed on IBM ThinkPad 365X
> > > (Sclackware 7.1)
> > >
> > > Before, I had a fixed IP and everything worked fine
> > > (over a pcmcia network card).
> > >
> > > Now, I came to a dhcp environment, but the system
> > > does not have a dhcpd (dhpc deamon).

I thought this meant you have no dhcp server in your router.

There is a Basiclinux 3.5.

> > > I tried to transfer a dhcpcd file (i386 from Slackware 10)
> > > by means of a CD-R (365X does not have any USB port)
> > > but the system cannot read it (there is no problem with
> > > this CD-R on either Win 7 or Debian).

Can't read the CD or can't execute the file?  The file will require newer 
libraries to execute.

> > > Can you help me to come online?

Maybe the author of BL is still reading this list and can help.
I am not a linux or networking expert.