On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:44:47PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > At first I observed Problems loading tulip.o which is located in > a subdirectory of the network drivers. > Loading it manually via insmod tulip.o *and* answering the > question whether to load the module automatically with *no* (it might > make sense to check whether a module is just loaded instead of blindly > trying to load the module) worked.
What was the error message you saw when you tried to load it through debian-installer? > I observed problems while trying to get an address via DHCP. > When I tried first time I randomly choosed some udebs and DHCP > worked like a charm. After the second reboot I also tried > several DHCP related udebs but it did not work at all. > > The message is like follows: > > installer[4621]: running cmd '/sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1' > installer[4621]: lo: applet not found > installer[4621]: running cmd '/sbin/modprobe af_packet' > installer[4621]: running cmd '/sbin/dhclient eth0' > installer[4621]: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 > installer[4621]: ... > installer[4621]: eth0: applet not found > installer[4621]: sleep: No such file or directory > installer[4621]: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:00:cb:53:3f:8c > installer[4621]: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:00:cb:53:3f:8c > installer[4621]: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net > installer[4621]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 intervall 5 > installer[4621]: send_packet: Network is down > installer[4621]: receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down > installer[4621]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 intervall 8 > installer[4621]: send_packet: Network is down > installer[4621]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 intervall 18 > installer[4621]: send_packet: Network is down > installer[4621]: ... > installer[4621]: No DHCPOFFERS received. > installer[4621]: No working leases in persistent database The "applet not found" error sounds like you loaded the busybox-cvs udeb, which doesn't contain ifconfig. Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

