Hello, Sorry for the cross-post, but this thread has generic and laptop related issues.
I installed Potato (running the default 2.2.19 kernel) on an IBM 600e Thinkpad about a month ago. I seem to have clobbered something This problem list is in chronological order. I'm not (necessarily) looking for answers to the specific problems, but rather what tools I can use to diagnose them. Problem #1 The original install seemed to pick up the PCMCIA support just fine, and it appears to recognize my network card without any problems. I had to run dhcpcd manually, though to get an IP address. After that, everything worked fine, except that I had to restart dhcpcd every time I rebooted. Problem #2 Downloaded the 2.2.20 kernel sources from kernel.org (no, I didn't use the Debian package - I kind of wanted to step through the process manually) Realized that the laptop is distracting me at work, so I decide to take it home. Built the 2.2.20 kernel. Boots fine. Of course, I don't have a broadband connection at home (dialup only). I "sneaker-net" the TP600e winmodem driver from my wife's Win2K box, rebuild the kernel (because I forgot to include floppy support!), build and install the driver, and get ppp up and running. Now I can dial in from my linux box. Cool. I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM), and reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like Windows!). Problem #3 This is the real blocking issue. Today I bring the laptop back to work, because I want to download some big packages. First, no pcmcia, because I didn't really do everything I needed to when I build 2.2.20 (specifically, no pcmcia module in /lib/modules/linux2.2.20). Ok, no big deal, since I still have my 2.2.19 kernel in /boot. Boot 2.2.19, run dhcpcd (as usual, see Problem #1). Domain names aren't resolving (ping www.yahoo.com <http://www.yahoo.com> - host unreachable), but I can ping IP addresses. Looked at the networking HOWTO - the only thing I found that looked wrong was that route.conf was empty, so I added our DNS servers. I can ping the DNS servers (by IP address), but name resolution still fails. All the earlier problems are things I can work around and tolerate. The last one is pretty much keeping me off the network. Questions: 1. I checked that there was a symlink to dhcpcd from /etc/rc2.d (S13dhcpcd), but I don't see any messages in /var/log/syslog. The only thing I see is the successful detection of the Ethernet adapter and it launching ./network start eth0 (which is something I'll be taking a look at shortly). 2. Any hints as to why I didn't get a pcmcia module in my kernel build? I ran 'make modules modules-install', which I had assumed would handle that for me. 3. Is there some way I can watch (debug) the DNS lookup and get a clue as to why it's failing? Thanks in advance, Richard Wurdack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
