My experience (using a PowerMac 7300) is a mixture of these two experiences.
What I have seen, using a 2.2.18 kernel I built myself, is:
(1) if I configure /etc/network/interfaces to use a static IP address,
networking works great,
(2) if I use dhcpcd (I have to get the deb from potato since its been
obsoleted in woody), networking works great,
(3) if I use pump (the only DHCP clients available in woody AFAIK),
networking doesn't work. Pump appears to configure the network correctly
(from what I can see using ifconfig and route), but when I try to ping my
router/dhcp-server/name-server (a 3COM OfficeConnect ISDN lan modem), all
the returned packets appear to get dropped (at least cat /proc/net/dev
shows lots of dropped packets), so ping fails completely.
It seems to me that it can't be the kernel that is at fault, since it works
fine configured statically, or using dhcpcd. It seems to me that dhcpcd
must being doing something different than pump. My personal preference
would be to see dhcpcd un-obsoleted, and to make it the DHCP client used in
the install disks and base images. Until somebody can figure out how to
make pump work, I don't see why dhcpcd should be obsoleted.
- Peter Canning
PS: I haven't used a 2.4 kernel yet, so I can't comment on that.
At 12:03 AM 3/31/2001, Andrew Sharp wrote:
MACE seems to work "fine" on all my old worlds: 7200/75, 7600/200,
8500/200MP. 2.2.18pre21 and 2.2.17. I'm using the TP port.
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Adam Goode wrote:
Yes, I have had this problem. The short answer is: MACE is completely
broken in recent 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. It seems to be able to send 1-2
packets before failing with "lost a status word". These few initial
packets allow DHCP to work ok, while everything else fails.
I don't know how to fix it, although I remember using MACE on Linux
fine back in 1998 (don't ask me which kernel!), and NetBSD and Mac OS
work fine.
Perhaps this will spark some discussion to the root cause, as I would
like to use Debian on my old 604-upgraded 7500!
Adam
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:19:56AM +0100, Martin Hedenfalk wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to install Debian on my 7200/90. After getting a
boot-floppy that
> recognized my keyboard (2.2.19, 2000-11-22), I was able to boot into the
> install program. Now I wan't to get the drivers/modules from the network.
> eth0 (MACE) is configured ok and the default route is ok, but I'm
unable to
> ping anything except my own IP. And, yes, the cable is plugged in.
Networking
> worked in MacOS.
>
> Has anyone had the same problem?
>
> thanks in advance / Martin
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