keith

Thanks for the replies. I finally got it sorted out.

Turns out my ethernet card was not being configured properly.

I had to run the following commands to get it up and running - found from the networking howto


ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo


And now, what tallkien said makes sense.

Hopefully this will help anyone in the same spot.

But if this laptop is never connected to the internet, does that mean I can't use houdini because I never have an ip automatically assigned to me?

Since I'm typing this out at uni and the laptop is all the way back in my hostel, it's not possible to use the irc advantages.

I'll try reinstalling my network components.

But I don't have a static nor a dynamic ip (will 0.0.0.0 work?) because the laptop is never connected to the internet.