Hello, I am playing with LFS for the first time on my Dell Inspiron 1420n. (At some point, I might write a beginners' walkthrough for getting LFS working on this laptop model.) Overall, I like what I've seen so far of LFS.
Except for some oddness with the SCSI drive on my machine (kernel modules don't help much for mounting the root directory when you're not using initrd ...) all of the problems I've had earlier I've traced directly to something stupid I did. Now, I successfully compiled the DHCP client without the iproute patch, as I intended to use net-tools, which I also built (successfully, I thought). Now, if I boot up with the ethernet cable already plugged in, I get an IP address and can surf the web in glorious ASCII with Lynx. I can run: ifconfig eth0 and see the information about that device and IP address. However, if I run: ifconfig down eth0 or: ifconfig up eth0 I get: eth0: Host name lookup failure ifconfig: '--help' gives usage information At a glance, does this look like a simple configuration problem, or did I screw up the build itself? While I'm emailing the list, I have to comment on the BLFS book itself: Overall, the structure seems sane, but I absolutely cannot fathom why dhcpcd is covered under "Basic Networking", while DHCP is covered under "Servers". This seems completely the reverse of what I would expect. Am I missing something? Thanks for any replies; I look forward to inflicting a new level of pain on myself with wireless networking once I have net-tools behaving. :-D -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named 'linksys'." -- Randall Munroe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
