On 4/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > The error with the lo device may be related (probably). If you can't > > get the lo device up, then maybe you're missing parts of the > > networking stack from the kernel. Look at the init.d/localnet script. > > The two commands it's running are: > > > > ip addr add 127.0.0.1/8 label lo dev lo > > ip link set lo up > > > > What happens when you run those? What happens if you run the following > > command (replace eth0 with your device if it's different)? > > > > ip link set eth0 up > > yes i configured dhclient properly (at least i think so) it runs ok just cant > fetch the needed data (theres a long delay when it's run before it gives up). > when i run ip addr add 127.0.0.1/8 label lo dev lo i get "Cannot find device > "lo"" and ip link set eth0 up doesnt result in any message.
OK, so if you don't even have the loopback device, then probably you're missing some parts of the kernel. Go through the Networking section of the kernel config and try to see if you're missing anything. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
