*** RULE 1 *** never, never reply to an e-mail before your first cup
*** RULE 2 *** let your brain rev up after coffee has been ingested before
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*** WARNING *** I'm still in dire need for cafeine, possible brain farts
ahead.
Woops -- mea culpa. My previous e-mail was not exactly the best answer.
Though, I still wonder: since there is no official 7.1 USparc Mandrake, do I
have to wait to get functionnal networking???
So, now with a better answer: I did look for configured networking
interfaces using both DrakConf and a console (ifconfig, "netstat -i" and "ls
-CaF /dev") and absolutely no interfaces were configured. During the
install, I was able to flip to another VC (can't do that once Linux is
installed, booted and running -- what gives?) and did not see any references
to networking hardware being detected. It looks like 7.1B2's installer
can't detect what comes with the USparc 10/Creator 3D, either because it is
unfinished or because it is broken (hey, it's beta software, it's to be
expected).
LinuxConf was of no help -- there is no "detect new hardware" function.
Doing a MAKEDEV might be the trick but I have no clue what major/minor
numbers I should use.
*** INSERT MINOR BREAKTHROUGHS HERE ***
#1: Doing an "lsmod", it looks like the good networking module ("sunhme") is
loaded. I'm saying the "right module" because when I tried to use the
machine the first time, Solaris mentionned "hme0" as a net interface during
bootup. And said module is present in /lib/modules/2.2.16-5mdk/net
(sunhme.o).
#2: Doing a "modprobe -c | grep hme" and a "modprobe -c | grep eth" reveal
the following line: "alias eth0 sunhme" (which is in /etc/conf.modules,
duh). But then, when I noticed that networking was not working, I added
eth0 using DrakConf (or NetConfig, whatever) because no NIC was listed.
Hmmm... should I do a MAKEDEV for eth0, then?
Bruno Majewski
Internetworking Specialist / Sp�cialiste d'Inter-r�seautage
AT&T Canada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Stodden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Hydrogen2 USparc: no networking?!?
>
> "Majewski, Bruno" wrote:
>
> > I have managed to install beta 2 of Mandrake 7.1 on this Ultra10
> Creator3D
> > (P/N: 380-0196-01) that was scrounged up at work (no one knows what it
> was
> > used for, no S/W was with it, etc.) and after fighting a bit with X
> > configuration and with the partition table (seperate bugs that will have
> to
> > be reported seperatly), I now have a fast Linux box with a nice big
> screen.
> >
> > But networking doesn't work -- it looks like the NIC was not even
> detected!
>
> You must upgrade to the released Mandrake 7.1
>
> In any case, networking will not work as left by the installer.
> There is a lot you must set up yourself (try linuxconf?). Then you
> must install the missing nfs-clients RPM and use ksysv to make the
> nfs daemon load at boot time.
>
> > When I look into /dev, there doesn't seem to be any NIC detected. No
> "eth0",
> > "eth1", etc. And the NIC Solaris IDs as "hme0" (or is it "hme1" ?)
> isn't
> > there either.
>
> eth0, eth1, etc are NOT Linux devices. Look in /var/log/messages to
> see whether they were set up and run ifconfig in a root terminal
> window to confirm it.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Mandrake Linux.
