I have been using Linux for a year. I started with hamm and now I am using
slink.
I was running kernel 2.0.36 until last week.
Then decided it was the time to tackle sound config.
Then I realized it might had been a bit easier if I switched to 2.2 series
kernels.
Read a great deal of docs, installed the kernel 2.2.9 using kernel-package and
it worked!
Then I configured the sound card, configuring the Soundblaster Vibra16pnp
troubled
me a great deal, but everything was fine in the end.
Now the problem is that I have recognized a strange message during boot up, and
I am not
exactly sure if it is related to this final upgrade.
Just after the local file systems are mounted, a message is displayed on the
console:
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
Hunted around in /etc/rcS.d for some time and discovered that the message was
displayed while
the file /etc/rcS.d/S40network was being executed.
Placing some echo commands here and there I tracked down the problem to the
invocations of
the route command.
Doesn't seem to be a serious problem, as everything seems to be working, but
what may be the
cause for such an error msg, can anybody help. I do not have any experience with
routing issues.
Following is a listing of my /etc/rcS.d/S40network file, hope it will help:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=144.122.246.42
NETMASK=255.255.252.0
NETWORK=144.122.244.0
BROADCAST=144.122.247.255
GATEWAY=144.122.246.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
