Friends- I've stared at this problem for several hours now and must admit I'm missing something very important but can't see it.
I'm currently running Bering 1.0-rc3 on a 486 and have run EigerStein and LRP previously, so I've got several years of LEAF under my belt. I downloaded the stock uClibc 2.2.0b4 and made some configuration changes to bring up a PPPoE link with Verizon. I used my old configuration changes as guidance as I stepped through the Bering [& uClibc] Installation [& User] Guides. Everything boots up except eth0 and eth1 appear not to have TCP/IP bound to them and Shorewall spits and hisses about interfaces. The output of "ping 127.0.0.1" is: ----- PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ----- The output of "ip link show" is: ----- 1: lo: <LOOPBACK> mtu 16436 qdisc noop link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000 link/ether 00:10:4b:00:64:c4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 4: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop qlen 1000 link/ether 00:60:08:08:78:81 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ----- Troubleshooting info follows. The strings in 3c509.o say: ----- kernel_version=2.4.26 description=3Com Etherlink III (3c509, 3c509B) ISA/PnP ethernet driver ----- so I seem to have the right compiled version of the ethernet card driver. syslinux.cfg is unchanged from stock. leaf.cfg looks like this: ----- LRP="root config etc local modules iptables dhcpcd shorwall ulogd dnsmasq dropbear weblet ppp pppoe" PKGPATH="/dev/fd0u1680:msdos" syst_size=6M log_size=2M ----- "ls -l /lib/modules/3c509.o": ----- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13632 Jul 3 10:21 3c509.o ----- "3c509.o" is the first and only uncommented entry in /etc/modules until the PPPOE section, like in my current working /etc/modules. "lsmod": ----- Module Size Used by Not tainted softdog 1508 1 ipt_state 336 2 ipt_helper 464 0 (unused) ipt_conntrack 820 0 ipt_REDIRECT 544 0 (unused) ipt_MASQUERADE 1056 0 (unused) ip_nat_irc 2152 0 (unused) ip_nat_ftp 2792 0 (unused) iptable_nat 15716 2 [ipt_REDIRECT ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp] ip_conntrack_irc 2876 1 ip_conntrack_ftp 3484 1 ip_conntrack 18312 2 [ipt_state ipt_helper ipt_conntrack ipt_REDIRECT ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp] pppoe 6732 0 (unused) pppox 924 1 [pppoe] ppp_synctty 4632 0 (unused) ppp_generic 16204 0 [pppoe pppox ppp_synctty] n_hdlc 5792 0 (unused) slhc 4296 0 [ppp_generic] 3c509 8240 0 (unused) ----- "dmesg" shows the two 3c509's getting IRQs (which IIRC doesn't happen if 3c509.o isn't present): ----- Linux version 2.4.26 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #1 Sun Jun 6 11:44:34 CEST 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001000000 (usable) 16MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 4096 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. DMI not present. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 LEAFCFG=/dev/fd0u1680:msdos Initializing CPU#0 Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 33.28 BogoMIPS Memory: 14004k/16384k available (973k kernel code, 1992k reserved, 111k data, 64k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) CPU: After generic, caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel 486 DX/2 stepping 05 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: System does not support PCI Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ DETECT_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024) ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 288k freed VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed eth0: 3c5x9 at 0x210, 10baseT port, address 00 10 4b 00 64 c4, IRQ 7. 3c509.c:1.19 16Oct2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html eth1: 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, address 00 60 08 08 78 81, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.19 16Oct2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 3.7 $, maxframe=4096 N_HDLC line discipline registered. PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 ip_conntrack version 2.1 (128 buckets, 1024 max) - 316 bytes per conntrack Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec ----- So, where is the "No, I don't want to use TCP/IP just yet" configuration setting? 'cause I would like to flip that bit. -John ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. 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