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[N. Thompson]

I tried running ifconfig and it gave me the same IP address that I tried 
to connect to earlier with scp, scp will still not connect to the 
address and pinging it shows that all the packets are lost.

Thanks anyway.

john-thomas richards wrote:

>On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 03:55:08PM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
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>>Some of you might remember back when I was trying to get the contents of 
>>dad's laptop's hard drive backed up onto another computer, unfortunately 
>>he decided to wait a long time before changing the distribution on it 
>>and since then I've lost the backup.
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>>I know how to copy the files over with scp however his laptop is not 
>>taking an IP address, I tried assigning it one with hostname 
>>192.168.0.201 and it took the ip address but when I try to ping it no 
>>connection is made. Both computers have access to the internet so I 
>>don't know what the problem could be.
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>>The laptop is running Debian woody, I've also got a SLAX live Cd that 
>>should have worked on it but version of LILO it uses to boot didn't want 
>>to run properly, I have no idea what to do now so I'm hoping some of you 
>>will have ideas.
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>knowing it connects to the network is good information.  you have gotten
>much better at asking questions!
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>since the laptop is connected to the network and does not respond at
>that particular ip address (via ping), i suggest verifying the ip
>address with ifconfig.  perhaps you are not actually changing the ip
>address as you think.  i do not think the 'hostname' command changes the
>ip address (i may be wrong).
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