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Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

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On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:04:38 -0500
Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> wrote:

> . . . Okay.
> 
> The problem may be with dhcp, since xfce has no problem getting to the
> outside world, but openbox refuses to go any further than localhost.
> 
> So, does dhcp functionality need to be installed and/or set up
> separately for openbox?
> 
> And if so, how?
> 

It should be present in all installations, independent of window
manager. It is a dependency of several networking packages.

The current package in all distributions since squeeze, I believe, is
isc-dhcp-client.

Does /sbin/ifconfig show the network interfaces you expect to see (i.e.
not just lo)?

-- 
Joe

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Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 19:10 +0100
  Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-01-18 20:00 +0100
    Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 21:10 +0100
      Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 21:50 +0100
        Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 19:40 +0100
          Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-01-20 20:30 +0100
            Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 22:30 +0100
  Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> - 2016-01-18 20:50 +0100

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