I am an experienced MCC and Slackware installer and user (3-4 years experience.. I was there when you couldn't even subnet), but on my latest installation I thought I would aim for debian (I liked your approach to bug fixes and updates). However, I am considering giving up...
I cannot seem to get any networking running. I have installed debian from 0.93r6, and obtained netbase and netstd (1.17-1). My setup is a 3c501 card (I know, but its all I have spare at the moment). Now, I have configured my system the best I know how, but I cannot even get the loopback working. Yes, I have the 501 module loaded... When I ping loopback, it hangs up. ifconfig shows packets transmitted but never received. If I use the ethernet, ping segmentation-faults with a stack dump. dmesg shows this dump to be caused by a null dereference from C0000..0 (I cannot remember how many zeros there were). I would almost say that tcpip was not compiled into the kernel, but I cannot believe that it the problem... Last time I installed a system modules were just coming on-stream. What is the HWaddr field for in ifconfig? Should it be full of 00.00.00...C0..00.00.00? There is a field before this, which suggests that I haven't configured something. The loopback seems to be configured OK though. I would be grateful for any assistance, rather than being forced into another distribution (RedHat?). Thanks in advance, Gordon
