[ILUG] ever forgot to turn on the dsl modem before you turned on the computer

[Seán Mac Suibhne]

Paul,

Thanks for that I have Mandrake 9.2 here and it works on that. I sometimes 
forget to turn on the firewall and have had to reboot till now to solve this 
problem. 

GRMA

Seán

Scríobh ompaul: 
> Hi,
>
> Another one from the I am not awake yet dept.
>
> I forgot to turn on the dsl modem and I get for my troubles, the mail
> client giving out about not being able to pop mail.
>
> Solution is simple run the following on the command line as root or
> using sudo:
> dhclient
>
> The leads to the philosophy of I have a connection, therefore I am.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul