On 4/16/05, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 15 April 2005 21:52, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > There is a plaintive cry in sys.log asking "How do I bring up
> > network interfaces in this distro?"
>
> FBBG.
I had to google for that :-). It shows me how 'out of it' I actually am.
> That's why we remove net.agent from our hotplug installation. Of course
> the script will be modified in order to call the "ifup" script from
> LFS-bootscripts, but someone has to figure out first how to do that in a
> secure way (so that there is absolute no possibility for any single packet to
> bypass the firewall).
>
This plaintive cry was about something else altogether. I have a
hotplug init.d script, but not a link to it yet, so it isn't run at
boot. /etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S80localnet brought up loopback and set
the hostname. That old thread went on about X not starting because of
some error about /dev/pts. In fact all I needed was a hostname and a
loopback interface. X is now fine.
/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S40mountfs is run. Everything is mounted.
Comparing /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab seems to indicate that everything
is mounted. S50cleanfs doesn't happen, AFAICT, and why I don't know.
There was a hack, a modprobe to a 2.4 usb module which may have
generated an error in mountfs. I needed to have live usb ports before
the script could mount .proc/bus/usb
>
> Yes. This version of hotplug has serious problems with linux-2.6 and USB. For
> known working instructions, see the SVN LFS book. Of course, you may omit
> udev.
This is an internet starved household here Alexander, udev I have
heard of but not had the stomach for reading up on more poorly
documented alpha packages which go out of date as soon as I install
it, and muck up all my /dev setup.
>
> Also, with linux-2.6, you don't need usbutils at all if you have mounted sysfs
> on /sys.
That last comment also went about three feet over my head. I'll have
to find out what sysfs is about. It seems as soon as I closed my eyes,
everything took a jump :-o.
/thinks Mebbe I can hack into this modem using 20th Century technology
- the lan card.
It's got to be better than all this reading.
--
All the Best
Declan.
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