Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, James Miller wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > This is a wordy way of telling you that you should run depmod. The modutils > > init script is supposed to do this for you, but it may interact with initrd > > in funny ways. So to be safe, do this (followin

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 14 June 2004 20:50, Ray Olszewski wrote: > BTW, I read through the man page for initrd, and from what is there, I > would expect linuxrc to use /etc/modules as its information source about > what modules to load. I could easily be wrong here, though ... the man page > *really* is unclear

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > This is a wordy way of telling you that you should run depmod. The modutils > init script is supposed to do this for you, but it may interact with initrd > in funny ways. So to be safe, do this (following the dpkg-reconfigure): > > 1. Reboot the

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 01:06 PM 6/14/2004 -0500, James Miller wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, James Miller wrote: > Thanks for the input, Ray. Unfortunately, I don't have any very clear > recollection of specifics of that error message, other than it telling me > there was some sort of problem setting up modules since mo

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, James Miller wrote: > Thanks for the input, Ray. Unfortunately, I don't have any very clear > recollection of specifics of that error message, other than it telling me > there was some sort of problem setting up modules since modules were in > use by the current kernel, and g

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread James Miller
Thanks for the input, Ray. Unfortunately, I don't have any very clear recollection of specifics of that error message, other than it telling me there was some sort of problem setting up modules since modules were in use by the current kernel, and giving a very stern warning about the need to reboo

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
encountering **may** be an outdated or incomplete > listing of module dependencies. If you modprobe'd each invidivually and in > the right order, you simply bypassed this problem in your hand install. The > way to get this cleaned up is to run "depmod -a", which will rebuild the >

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-14 Thread James Miller
> appropriate modules.dep file. The init script I referred to above -- I > checked and it is /etc/init.d/modutils -- is supposed to do this for you > during init. The only modprobing I did was for NIC modules - this because I had no 'net connection when the machine booted up (that holds

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-12 Thread joy
James Miller wrote: This has all been a long-winded preface to the question: what the heck I gotta do to get my NIC modules back to loading on boot? Am I Well, since you know the modules to be loaded , the quick and dirty solution would be to put a shell script in /etc/init.d which says modp

Re: net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
k wasn't pointing to the right initrd.img). But I did manage to reboot with the old kernel after the new one rebooting failed and to straighten out that mistake. It was at that point that I spotted the fearful message "eth0 ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device."

net (& module, I guess) problems after dist-upgrade

2004-06-12 Thread James Miller
mg). But I did manage to reboot with the old kernel after the new one rebooting failed and to straighten out that mistake. It was at that point that I spotted the fearful message "eth0 ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device." And, sure enough, there was no net connection. And

Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection?

2004-01-19 Thread Juan Facundo Suárez
cundo Suárez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "linux-newbie list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:39 AM Subject: Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection? | See the file /usr/src/linux-2.6.0/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | for more informatio

Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection?

2004-01-08 Thread Beolach
OTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:58 AM Subject: Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection? | First off, I have no actual experience with this, and I am just going | off the kernel documentation. It is possible, and you even remembered | the term correctly - ethernet channel bon

Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection?

2004-01-08 Thread Juan Facundo Suárez
those are de two i want to use "bonded" ? Thanks ! - Original Message - From: "Beolach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:58 AM Subject: Re: 2 ethernet jac

Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection?

2004-01-08 Thread James Miller
Thanks for that info, Conway. What's on the other end is actually a university network, and beyond that their ISP. I have no idea how this network is set up or the nature of their internet service, and cannot really even conjecture whether the setup might support such bonding. I would guess that

Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection?

2004-01-07 Thread Beolach
First off, I have no actual experience with this, and I am just going off the kernel documentation. It is possible, and you even remembered the term correctly - ethernet channel bonding. What will most likely be the deciding factor on whether or not you can actually set this up is if the othe

2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection?

2004-01-07 Thread James Miller
I've got 2 physical ethernet jacks available to me here. I assume each processes traffic independently: I've been online at both simultaneoulsy with 2 different computers, anyway. Since I'll be setting up a firewall/router here (LRP type thing, with an older computer), I was just wondering about

Re: net detection failure with old kernel

2003-12-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 01:54 PM 12/16/2003 -0600, James Miller wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > problem down a bit. As to the source ... I'm assuming that the 2.2.20 > kernel did get a DHCP lease from this server before you switched to > 2.4.something_or_other and that you made no changes to the har

Re: net detection failure with old kernel

2003-12-16 Thread James Miller
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > problem down a bit. As to the source ... I'm assuming that the 2.2.20 > kernel did get a DHCP lease from this server before you switched to > 2.4.something_or_other and that you made no changes to the hardware or the > BIOS settings after you switched ke

Re: net detection failure with old kernel

2003-12-15 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:03 PM 12/15/2003 -0600, James Miller wrote: On a Debian install I recently did, I ended up getting a newer kernel to replace the 2.2.20 kernel I initially installed on the system. But the old kernel remains on the system, and I can boot from it if I enter "LinuxOLD" at the command prompt. T

net detection failure with old kernel

2003-12-15 Thread James Miller
lease visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html Mon Dec 15 12:20:59 2003: Mon Dec 15 12:21:00 2003: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:00:c0:1a:19:76 Mon Dec 15 12:21:00 2003: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:00:c0:1a:19:76 Mon Dec 15 12:21:00 2003: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net Mon Dec 15 12:21:0

Re: /net

2002-10-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
to interfere with the umount command. Or the control file "/etc/amd.net" may contain illuminating information. At 09:29 PM 10/29/02 -0500, Bryan Simmons wrote: Here is what /etc/mtab says about /net: brainpress:(pid1532) /net nfs intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect,map =/etc/am

Re: /net

2002-10-29 Thread Bryan Simmons
Here is what /etc/mtab says about /net: brainpress:(pid1532) /net nfs intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect,map =/etc/amd.net,dev=000b 0 0 automount(pid1622) /net autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1622,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 Here's what I know: I'm running Mandrake 9.0 kernel 2.

Re: /net

2002-10-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
ou need to tell us what is mounted as /net (look in /etc/fstab to find out, if you don't know, or look at the output of "df"). Usually, a "device busy" error from umount means that some active process is using the partition that umount is trying to unmount. Without more de

/net

2002-10-29 Thread Bryan Simmons
iven, I get the error: umount2: : umount /net: device busy and right there, all attempts to shutdown/reboot are ended. The system just sits there. The only thing I can do is hit the reset button. If not for XFS, I'd be running fsck at every frickin reboot. I have an AthlonXP 2100+ system, integ