I'm trying to network 2 linux pcs here and have run into a spot of
bother. One seems fine. The other will ping 127.0.0.1 OK, but sees the network
as unreachable. That little HOWTO mentioned here recently on networking is
great - but I find one imperfection; It says "You'll need everything for
networking, and NFS except the stuff beginning with YP ... and NIS" A list
of what everything is would be useful here.
Anyhow, my problem:
eth0 throws up an error and can't be initialised on bootup
[root@workhorse /etc]#ifconfig eth0
returns an unreachable message, but the hardware will transmit & receive with
that little test program on the driver disk under Dos. It is an NE2000
compatible card. This is what insmod throws up.
[root@workhorse /etc]# insmod ne2k-pci
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: unresolved symbol ei_open
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: unresolved symbol ethdev_init
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: unresolved symbol ei_interrupt
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: unresolved symbol NS8390_init
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net/ne2k-pci.o: unresolved symbol ei_close
[root@workhorse /etc]#
I have a working /etc/HOSTNAME, resolv.conf, hosts, etc. etc to compare to and
they all seem reasonable.
Can anyone spot the obvious blunder? I didn't install on it, and have found
some essentials not present, and weird things like RAID arrays enabled :-/.
There must be a way of killing that, but it doesn't show in ntsysv
Somebody who wasn't an expert did an 'expert' install, and the cd was playing
games. I did set up the last kernel rebuild, so I think the kernel will cope
with the card.
One oddity which might be connected is that on starting X I get the error
NAME: command not found
The machine is: K6/2-350, w/64 MB ram, and 4.3Gig hd for linux. SiS chipset
(5513?) with an SiS 6326 video card + 8MB onboard. (M$ stuff has a separate hd)
The installation is 7.0 (Air), kernel 2.2.14-15. Curiously, the graphical "What
have we got here?" programs say it's a 586 cpu, correctly identify it as a k6,
and give it the generation number 6 (=i686). Clear as mud, isn't it?
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Declan Moriarty
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