No Localhost on new Woody Installation.

No Localhost on new Woody Installation.

[Dave Hunt]

Hi,

I'm working on a new instance of Debian Woody, and have noticed that I
appear to have no local loopback internet device.  That is, any
attempt to reach 127.0.0.1 fails.  A ping says "network is
unreachable".  When I try reaching by hostname "debian", an attempt is
made to reach "127.0.0.1" (localhost).  Even stranger is the fact that
I can access any other internet host.  I've never seen a machine
without local loopback.  How do I add this?


Any thoughts?


-Dave

Re: No Localhost on new Woody Installation.

[Sébastien FRANÇOIS]

Hi,
in /etc/network/interfaces you should have something like this

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

seb

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Re: No Localhost on new Woody Installation.

[Dave Hunt]

Thanks!  Will try.

Does Debian Woody usually come with local loopback not available, or
was it something I did in the install.  When setting it up, Debian
didn't find my ethernet card.  I had to build a new kernel with
support for it in-built.


-Dave



Sébastien FRANÇOIS writes:
 > Hi,
 > in /etc/network/interfaces you should have something like this
 > 
 > auto lo
 > iface lo inet loopback
 > 
 > seb
 > 

Re: No Localhost on new Woody Installation.

[Simon Waters]

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Dave Hunt wrote:
> 
> Does Debian Woody usually come with local loopback not available, or
> was it something I did in the install. 

Usually, so yes something you did. Although possibly only the route you
took through the install.

> When setting it up, Debian
> didn't find my ethernet card.  I had to build a new kernel with
> support for it in-built.

What sort of ethernet card is this?

I did a lot of Debian kernel rebuilding (don't you love those kernel
packaging tools) only to find everything I wanted worked fine with the
stock 2.4.18 kernel if you knew what to do.

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Re: No Localhost on new Woody Installation.

[Dave Hunt]

Hi,

I did the Debian install with the floppy set from
"linux-speakup.org".  I used the rescue, root, and 'drivers' disks.
In the "configure device drivers" part of the install, I tried adding
the modules for my 3comm Etherlink card.  They wouldn't add.  I
proceeded, anyway, just to get a working system.  After that, I
discovered that I had no networking.  I got a 2.4.20 kernel from
kernel.org, and built it, using the kernel packaging instructions
(Yes, I do like them).  Now, I have networking to remote hosts, but
not local.  

Now, I'm trying to find packages to fully enable my installation of
emacspeak, such as libxslt.  


Thanks,


-Dave