On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:27:17PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote: > Hi & hag sameiach to all > > I used the wait for the new computer in order to play with the > instalation of debian sarge kernel 246-8. I started with an
kernel 2.4.27 or 2.6.8? > installation CD. Then, in the second stage, I configured pppoe, > changed the definition of the apt sources and continued. > Two questions: > 1-I found no way to properly configure the net: either (automatic > or manual configuration) I ended with a netcard that wakes up > with a definite address, or with a /etc/network/interfaces file > containing only the lo interface. I can do manually an "ifconfig > eth0 up" (as root) and then "pon dsl-provider", either as root or > as a normal user belonging to the dip group. What happens when you run 'ifup eth0'? Is eth0 configured in /etc/network/interfaces? Is there any 'auto eth0' there? You can also use the 'ppp' method to automatically start a ppp connection: iface ppp inet ppp provider dsl-provider This will happen to work in the right order at boot time. I'm not sure if this is because of the order in the file or because 'e' comes before 'p'. See interfaces(5) for more details. > In the old slackware and red hat distributions there was a > rc.local where one could put commands like "ifconfig eth0 up", in > order to automate this step. I saw nothing like it in this > distribution. > I assume that there must be a better way. In the /network/interfaces > file, after configuring ppoe, there is a line: > "pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf" > which is supposed to take care of the problem, but it does not > work when "pon dsl-provider" is invoked (even by root): if the > netcard had not been up-ped previously, plog just reports that > the net is down. > I tried to introduce the lines: > iface eth0 inet manual > up ifconfig 0.0.0.0 up > up /usr/bin/pon dsl-provider > down ifconfig down > as suggested by one of the examples in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples > but this did not help either. > 2-During the boot process I see messages about modules that > cannot be loaded (not found). I don't see them in dmesg or in the > syslog. But I see there: > Apr 16 17:48:32 tami kernel: Cannot find map file. > Apr 16 17:48:32 tami kernel: No module symbols loaded. > > Any ideas? > > A last question: > I am very tempted to try the procedure described in > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Multiboot-with-GRUB.gz > (by Ivan Kanis, [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I still have valuable software > for windows 98 -like Partition Magic and SAS. > I'd like to know if anyone had direct experience with it > > Bye and thanks, Avraham > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
