Howdy, Now that my shiny new LFS system is more or less running, I'm trying to get all of the bits and pieces runnning.
The system seems unable to find the ethernet card. The card is actually built into the mother board -- a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411. After following the LFS book's instructions (Version SVN-20131105) on installing udev, and then the instructions "7.2. General Network Configuration", I found that the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" was not created. A note in section 7.2.1 says in this case to "just continue to the next section". I'm not sure just which section to continue to, so I continued to "7.2.2. Creating Network Interface Configuration Files" and tried to do what's instructed there and in section 7.2.3. Unfortunately I have no idea how to find out what numbers to plug into the various lines in the files ifconfig.eth0 and resolve.conf, and the book gives no suggestions how to. Can anyone clue me in? I installed dhcp, following the suggestions in "9.3. Rebooting the System" (along with all the other programs suggested). So when linux came up for the first few times, the dhcp client complained that it couldn't find "eth0". So I renamed ifconfig.eth0 to something else and rebooted. I tried a number of variations on this, and finally looked at /sys/class/net. There were two directories: "lo" and "sit0". I had expected "eth0" rather than "sit0"; I don't know what the latter is. I copied ifconfig.eth0 to ifconfig.sit0 and changed the innards accordingly, then used ifup to try to bring up the network card manually. No luck. Finally, in "6.62. Udev-208 (Extracted from systemd-208)" there's a script executed with "bash udev-lfs-208-1/init-net-rules.sh". I followed the commands there manually and found that what it's trying to do simply does not work on my system: the files it wants to find in /sys/class/net are not there. So somewhere along the line, something has changed so that these files don't get created. Any clues as to how to get this thing up and running? Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
