On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM, William Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Yeah, initramfs is definitely the way to go, but it can be a serious pain to setup. Bryan Kadzban created an initramfs tool, but it hasn't made it into LFS yet. Someday. > 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? That's because you need to run the DHCP client again after you bring the device up again. You can do something like "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start" again to run the LFS network scripts. > 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? The DHCP package contains both a client (dhclient) and a server (dhcpd) for running a DHCP server. The client is covered here, which is under "Basic Networking": http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/dhcpclient.html Sort of unfortunate, but that's how it goes. > 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 Wireless is not a lot of fun, especially if encryption is involved. I don't think we cover it much at all in BLFS. I personally let NetworkManager handle all the details, but getting that all built and setup is another story altogether. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
