On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Daniel Karlsson wrote: >... > boot manager, Linux is now up and running. > > Unfortunately it's not up and running to that extent I would like to. I have > no contact at all with the network and with the Internet in particular. I > think I have to make some changes in the network configuration. The question > is: How do I reconfigure the network when I've already installed Linux. I > don't want to reinstall it for a small matter like this.
I don't know if you're having the exact same problem as i had, but here's what happened to me: I just recently did an ftp install of debian. Everything was fine, but my network didn't start. If you've done the configuration correctly, you should be able to do this: # ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:1410 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:1410 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:51:6E:10 inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2349 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:1838 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x200 If you don't see the eth0, then you have to do something like ifconfig eth0 your.ip.numbers.here or something. Read the man page. If your eth0 is showing correctly then you have to look at: # netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo default x.x.x.x 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0 If you don't have a route out to the 'net through some default gateway, then you need to add a route. See the route man pages (which i have to say, are not very clear). If that's okay, then you have to see if there's a /etc/init.d/network file. Mine looks like: # more /etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 IPADDR=x.x.x.x NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=x.x.x.0 BROADCAST=x.x.x.255 GATEWAY=x.x.x.x ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} route add -net ${NETWORK} route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 You can see that it does the ifconfig and route commands for you. This was created in the configuration correctly. If you run this network file after bootup and you connect to the 'net properly, then you're exactly at the same place i was. Here's where the default installation failed for me: the network file was executed and worked, but then the kerneld removed the network after all the startup stuff was done! I don't know why it did that. I do know that people on this list helped me to find the answer: i created a link to the network file called /etc/rc2.d/S98network. That was it. Now the system boots, starts the network, kerneld shuts it down and S98 restarts it and it stays. I hope this was useful in some way. Maybe some part of it will tell you the answer to what your problem is. If not, maybe i'll learn from you when the solution is finally posted to this list. Good luck. ... universero trio... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tio.net/~trio Learn and use The International Language Esperanto!