On 11/24/2013 12:19 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Alan Feuerbacher wrote: >> Can anyone clue me in? > > It sounds like you don't have the right ethernet driver built. We > recommend building it into the kernel.
Ok, then I must have missed something when building the system. What do I look for in the LFS book to build the right ethernet driver? >> I installed dhcp, following the suggestions in "9.3. > > Always keep it simple when debugging. It's too early for dhcp. Well, when I brought up LFS last year, it was dhcp that actually figured out the proper stuff for ethernet. I no longer remember exactly what worked. My problem here is that I'm so new to the guts of linux that I often don't even know what to look for when a problem arises. > Also, you can google sit0 fairly easily to see what that is. Hint: It > has to do with IPv6. Ok, I looked it up but am not much the wiser. :-) This reminds me somewhat of the documentation provided by Cadence Design Systems for its Integrated Circuit design software, which I use every day at work. They have their own programming language called SKILL, a hybrid of C, Lisp and who knows what else? One part of the documentation might refer to a function "foo_The_Bar", which you can find a description of in a reference manual. The descriptions are often of the form: foo_The_Bar( t_text ) -> n_number This function foos the bar. ... Distinctly unhelpful if you don't already know what "foo" and "bar" are and why you need to bother knowing. :-) Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
