Network Scripts (branch of Stumped by ethernet)

2005-06-18 Thread Dan McGhee
When I posted "Stumped by ethernet (SOLVED), I reported that I could connect to the internet via my new DSL using the network scripts. This was not correct. I had done incomplete testing. To test the network scripts I ran '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart,' received no e

Re: Stumped by ethernet (SOLVED)

2005-06-14 Thread Joern Abatz
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:11:11PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > I changed /etc/resolv.conf to: > > domain [ISP domain] > search [ISP domain] Thanks for the update, Dan, I had been wondering what those were for. And I'm glad you made it. Joern -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/bl

Re: Stumped by ethernet (SOLVED)

2005-06-14 Thread Dan McGhee
Dan McGhee wrote: I don't know whether I have a configuration problem, a driver problem or a Dan problem. I'm trying to connect my BLFS 6.0 build to my new DSL. I have successfully done so in XP and Mandrake so I know the system is working. My guts tell me that I have done, or not done, so

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-13 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > > I ran 'routel' in both Mandrake and BLFS. There's one glaring > difference. In Mandrake there's a route that looks like this: > > targetgateway sourceprotoscope > dev tbl > >default2

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-12 Thread DJ Lucas
Dan McGhee wrote: > S. Back to the route tables. First of all, my ISP gave me the > following: > > 1. My static IP > 2. Gateway IP > 3. Subnet Mask IP > 4. DNS Preferred IP > 5. DNS Alternate IP > > I ran 'routel' in both Mandrake and BLFS. There's one glaring > difference. In Mandr

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-12 Thread Joern Abatz
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:39:34PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > Now I get IRQ=11 just like in > Mandrake. Good news. > The network just does NOT like the line > 'GATEWAY=.' >default216.139.123.254 >eth0 Those two are related. When the

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-12 Thread Dan McGhee
Declan Moriarty wrote: "Network is unreachable" is something I've seen every time I let my IRQ be set where yours is :-D. Basically, it means it's throwing stuff at the network card but not getting anything encouraging back Did you sort out your IRQ, /etc/hosts, and resolv.conf or dismiss my su

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-12 Thread Dan McGhee
Joern Abatz wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:03:01PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: [ Setting the IRQ ] I looked into the kernel tree. There doesn't seem to be any documentation on your driver (forcedeth). I looked into forcedeth.c (in drivers/net), and to me it seems the driver doesn't ta

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Joern Abatz
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:03:01PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > I tried passing IRQ=11 in the /etc/sysconfig/modules file, but the > driver then didn't load. You pass an IRQ to a driver in /etc/modprobe.conf on a 'options' line, if it is compiled as a module, or in the 'append' statement in lilo

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Dan McGhee
Declan Moriarty wrote: "Network is unreachable" is something I've seen every time I let my IRQ be set where yours is :-D. Basically, it means it's throwing stuff at the network card but not getting anything encouraging back Did you sort out your IRQ, /etc/hosts, and resolv.conf I can't get t

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Joern Abatz
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:59:48AM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > Bringing up the eth0 interface...[ OK ] > Adding IPV4 address [IP address from ISP] to the eth0 interface...[ OK ] > Setting up default gateway...[FAILED] > RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable > > Results of 'ifconfig eth0' >

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Jason Gurtz
On 6/11/2005 15:27, Dan McGhee wrote: > Declan Moriarty wrote: >>I imagine you are on PPPOE, or DHCP. I'm on a pppoe network, but I log >>into my modem via dhcp over the nic. This gives me a lazy time. >> > I don't use either one. I figured that since the ISP is all static I > didn't need eithe

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Dan McGhee
Declan Moriarty wrote: Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words Dan McGhee wrote: I still cannot connect to my DSL. I will, for clarity, reproduce my /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 file: ONBOOT=yes SERVICE=ipv4-static IP= GATEWAY= PREFIX=32 BROADCAST= All ad

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Joern Abatz
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:34:17PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > My ISP gave me: > > 1. a static IP > 2. a subnet mask IP > 3. a gateway IP > 4. primary DNS server IP > 5. secondary DNS server IP > 6. user name > 7. password Did they say what that user name and password are needed for? > The tech s

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > > Dan McGhee wrote: > > >I still cannot connect to my DSL. I will, for clarity, reproduce my > >/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 file: > > > >ONBOOT=yes SERVICE=ipv4-static IP= > >GATEWAY= PREFIX=32 > >BROADCAST= > > > >All addr's

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Dan McGhee
Dan McGhee wrote: I still cannot connect to my DSL. I will, for clarity, reproduce my /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 file: ONBOOT=yes SERVICE=ipv4-static IP= GATEWAY= PREFIX=32 BROADCAST= All addr's are in the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, ergo PREFIX=32. Here's the problem. If I

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Joern Abatz
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:59:48AM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > ONBOOT=yes > SERVICE=ipv4-static > IP= > GATEWAY= > PREFIX=32 > BROADCAST= If you say 'ping ', does it answer 'network unreachable' or something like that? Maybe it's not an IP network you're connecting to. It would help if you had tcp

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-11 Thread Dan McGhee
It turns out that I had two problems that I have reduced to one. Simon Geard wrote: I also have an nForce2 board using that driver for the onboard controller, but in my case hotplug correctly identifies and loads the forcedeth driver on bootup. Since that's apparently not happening in your cas

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-10 Thread Dan McGhee
Andrew Benton wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: I don't know whether I have a configuration problem, a driver problem or a Dan problem. Have you tried building the driver into the kernel, not as a module? Not yet. I will if I can't get this figured out soon. I want to struggle with this since

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan McGhee wrote: I don't know whether I have a configuration problem, a driver problem or a Dan problem. Have you tried building the driver into the kernel, not as a module? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubs

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-10 Thread Dan McGhee
I moved your question to the bottom so we wouldn't get yelled at for top posting. On 6/10/05, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know whether I have a configuration problem, a driver problem or a Dan problem. I'm trying to connect my BLFS 6.0 build to my new DSL. I have succ

Re: Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-10 Thread Henry christenson
If you manually load the driver with modprobe does it give you the same issue with eth0 not found ? when doing a ifconfig eth0 "Ip address" and of course replace "ip address" with a valid address like 192.168.0.88 or something :) On 6/10/05, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know w

Stumped by ethernet

2005-06-10 Thread Dan McGhee
I don't know whether I have a configuration problem, a driver problem or a Dan problem. I'm trying to connect my BLFS 6.0 build to my new DSL. I have successfully done so in XP and Mandrake so I know the system is working. My guts tell me that I have done, or not done, something correctly i