Other host already uses address -

[Bob Goodwin]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> It's difficult without the ethernet connection, I would have to type it
>> manually. but in addition to eth0 or 1 and lo, I also have an pan0? I do
>> not show that on this "good" computer? I tried plugging in a PCI
>> ethernet card but the "probe" function in the network setup GUI doesn't
>> see it and if I try to connect it acts like the card is not there.
>> However I see a different mac address in the ifconfig pan0 which I
>> assume is the address of that second card. I think I made all the
>> required entries network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ...
>>
>>     
> Wait a moment - are you trying to bring up both eth0 and eth1 on the
> same network? The pan0 is not the second NIC. I don't remember what
> it is off hand...
>   
No, I don't think I did that, just changed the config from eth0 to eth1 
when I plugged in the NIC. I haven't turned that computer on yet this 
morning.
> As far as moving messages from one computer to another when having
> network problems, I find saving the output to a PEN drive, or flash
> memory card and moding that to another machine works well. (Kind of
> like the old "sneaker net" that consisted of moving floppies from
> machine to machine... :-)
>   
Why didn't I think of that? I didn't want to waste Cd's, and disinclined 
to re-enable the floppy drive, prolly disabled in all my computers that 
still have one, then finding a floppy that was any good ... But I do 
have a new thumb drive on my desk that my daughter said would not work 
on her MAC but worked fine on my Fedora stuff.

The HP computer is even supposed to be able boot from USB ... even has 
jacks on the front. I will do that later after the sun comes over the 
edge ... will post the appropriate files.

The smallest desktop I've owned since the Commodore 64, an HP dc5100, 
$99 used, looks new, from Discount PC, 2.8 gHz P4, CD drive, SATA hard 
drive. I have 2 gigs of ram installed, will install a larger hard drive.

Bob
> Mikkel
>