Seem to be hitting a snag.
I am atempting to install debian on a 486. It seems to work fine execpt for the networking part. While booting up it sais NE200 Detected and that it is using IRQ 9. Then It starts to inform me that the network is unreachable. It does this for any ping or DNS search. Anything that anyone could recomend that I check? I was provided IP numbers for use on the machine. I am a bit confused as to what the loop back setings are for. Any sujestions welcome. Thanks.
Re: Seem to be hitting a snag.
Nathanael Nunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am atempting to install debian on a 486. It seems to work fine execpt
for the networking part. While booting up it sais NE200 Detected and
Sounds like your network is not being setup properly at boot. Even after
the card is detected the system needs to add routes in and out over
it. This is usually done in /etc/init.d/network. Here's mine:
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=132.248.6.33
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=132.248.6.0
BROADCAST=132.248.6.255
GATEWAY=132.248.6.254
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
IPADDR is your IP address, etc. You could look at the `ifconfig' and
`route' man pages for more details, as well as the NET-2-HOWTO.
Hope that helps,
Graeme
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Re: Seem to be hitting a snag.
Take a look at /etc/resolv.conf. It needs to have some lines in it. Mine looks like; domain CRAY.COM search cray.com sgi.com nameserver 128.162.xx.xx nameserver 128.162.xx.xx Where the nameserver lines point to the ip address of the DNS host or domain name server. Also take a look at your /etc/gateways file. Mine looks like: net default gateway 128.162.xx.xx metric 1 where the ip address points to the gateway here. BTW, the xx was really a 1 2 or 3 digit number less than 256 that was removed for security. 8^) Don't try to use those exact entries, but substitue the ip address of your DNS host and gateway. Nathanael Nunes wrote: I am atempting to install debian on a 486. It seems to work fine execpt for the networking part. While booting up it sais NE200 Detected and that it is using IRQ 9. Then It starts to inform me that the network is unreachable. It does this for any ping or DNS search. Anything that anyone could recomend that I check? I was provided IP numbers for use on the machine. I am a bit confused as to what the loop back setings are for. Any sujestions welcome. Thanks. -- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
Re: Seem to be hitting a snag.
Thanks for the assitance. Its finaly working. Jim Lynch wrote: Take a look at /etc/resolv.conf. It needs to have some lines in it. Mine looks like; domain CRAY.COM search cray.com sgi.com nameserver 128.162.xx.xx nameserver 128.162.xx.xx Where the nameserver lines point to the ip address of the DNS host or domain name server. Also take a look at your /etc/gateways file. Mine looks like: net default gateway 128.162.xx.xx metric 1 where the ip address points to the gateway here. BTW, the xx was really a 1 2 or 3 digit number less than 256 that was removed for security. 8^) Don't try to use those exact entries, but substitue the ip address of your DNS host and gateway. Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
