Sorry, I think I misaddressed the first reply.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jack McCauley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Developers Information e-smith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: pppoe problem
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jack McCauley wrote:
>
> > I just tonight installed rc1 as a direct network install from the
> > rawhide directory. The system I installed is an IBM PC750 with an NCR
> > SCSI adapter, a 1gb SCSI HDD, 80mb of memory, two Intel PCI
> > EtherExpress Pro100 NICs and a 200mhz pentium classic processor.
> >
> > The messages file indicates the system is only seeing 64mb of memory.
>
> There may be a BIOS update available for your computer. If so, it may help
> with detecting the full amount of RAM.
>
> > <!--StartFragment-->Jan 30 22:17:59 e-smith kernel: Memory:
> > 63484k/66556k available (1048k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1088k data,
> > 64k init, 0k bigmem)
>
> Failing that, a small modification to /etc/lilo.conf will allow you to
> configure your system to recognise the full RAM. I don't believe that
> there is anything that we can automate to correct that error - if the BIOS
> doesn't provide the correct information, we're stuck with what we find.
>
> > Jan 30 22:25:47 ibmpc750 pppoe: /usr/sbin/adsl-start: ipparam: command
> > not found
>
> There's a little problem to fix there. I think it is harmless, but in any
> case you can correct it by running these commands:
>
> mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/ppp/pppoe.conf
> touch /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/ppp/pppoe.conf/80ipparam
> /sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
>
> > But the test internet connection fails. Messages fragment follows:
> >
> > <!--StartFragment-->Jan 30 22:27:26 ibmpc750 console: Connecting to
servertest.e-smith.com:80...
> > Jan 30 22:27:26 ibmpc750 console: servertest.e-smith.com: Host not
found.
>
> That is not a problem with the e-smith server code, that is a change that
> hasn't yet been made in the e-smith.com DNS information. Expect that to be
> corrected in the morning.
>
> > Pings by hostname to www.e-smith.org fail with a bad IP address error.
>
> Can you quote exactly what you see please?
>
This is the output of the ping command to several addresses
[root@ibmpc750 /root]# ping www.e-smith.org
ping: unknown host www.e-smith.org
[root@ibmpc750 /root]# ping www.e-smith.com
ping: unknown host www.e-smith.com
[root@ibmpc750 /root]# ping www.microsoft.com
ping: unknown host www.microsoft.com
[root@ibmpc750 /root]# ping 64.36.192.1
Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP
PING 64.36.192.1 (64.36.192.1) from 207.68.52.106 : 56(84) bytes of data.
>From 207.68.52.106: Destination Host Unreachable
>From 207.68.52.106: Destination Host Unreachable
>From 207.68.52.106: Destination Host Unreachable
>From 207.68.52.106: Destination Host Unreachable
>From 207.68.52.106: Destination Host Unreachable
>From 207.68.52.106: Destination Host Unreachable
--- 64.36.192.1 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss
> Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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