PowerPC 604 200MHz, 112MB RAM, 9GB SCSI Drive, SCSI CD-ROM, Floppy, ATi Rage 128 PCI Card, Asante' 10/100T Ethernet PCI Card
128MB - Linux swap partition
You don't have enough swap if you use kernel 2.4.x. That version of the kernel needs at least double the amount of RAM you have for swap. However, I don't think that is causing the no swap at all problem.
Now I have two problems. The first is that the swap is not being used. It fails during startup, no reason given. Not sure what I need to do or where I need to do it to get that working.
check your swap situation
swapon -s
Is your swap partition formatted?
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/yourswappartionnumber
Use "mkswap" to make sure it is setup correctly
mkswap /dev/yourswappartionnumber
See if you can activate your freshly minted swap area
swapon -a
You may need to create a swap file so your system has enough swap. Check "man mkswap" to see how.
Second issue is the more important one. I can't seem to get it on the network.
and
my gut instinct is that when SuSE looked at your Asante card, it said 'ok, i know how to use that', but your dhcp client is trying to use the built-in ethernet jacks.
I agree that the system is probably seeing and using the on-board ethernet first.
you may need to edit your startup configuration file ( /etc/init.d/networking) to change this.
This is a bad place to put local system setups. The interfaces are configured with the files
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
and more numbers if you have more interfaces.
You should be able to turn off the on-board interface with a "ONBOOT=no" in the "ifcfg-ethx" file for that interface. I think that should force the DHCP client to skip to the next interface. You may need to copy the DHCP info from one "ifcfg-ethx" file to the other.
i'm thinking ps is even more of a friend... [dave] $ ps -ef
"ps -ef" is handy on some systems (IRIX, etc.), but on Linux you would want to use "ps ax"
Note no hypen.
You could pipe the output to a pager so the output doesn't just shoot by
ps ax|less
You may want to look over some of the Linux networking docs at
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/networking.html
There is a DHCP mini howto that might help.
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