On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:37:52 +0300
Andrei Banu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20.10.2014 12:32, Armin K. wrote:
> > On 10/20/2014 11:28 AM, Andrei Banu wrote:
> >> On 20.10.2014 11:49, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> >>> Le 20/10/2014 10:09, Andrei Banu a écrit :
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>> As for eth0, I believe I should start a new thread.
> >>> Maybe not:
> >>> What does "ip link list" return? For me, it does something like:
> >>> ----------------
> >>> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
> >>> mode DEFAULT group default
> >>> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> >>> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP
> >>> mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> >>> link/ether 00:10:18:97:be:62 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >>> ----------------
> >>> After the "2:", there is the name of the card as found by the kernel.
> >>> If it is something like eth126, it means the
> >>> 70-persistent-net.rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d should be removed
> >>> (the network card is consistently named eth0 in the initramfs phase,
> >>> and then you get to real boot, the name is already taken, so that the
> >>> system uses another one).
> >>>
> >>> If it is anything else, I suggest you use this name in
> >>> /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.<interface name>. You could also write udev
> >>> rules, but it is not worth the trouble...
> >>>
> >>> Pierre
> >>>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Besides the 1. loopback, it shows this:
> >>
> >> 2. sit0: <NOARP> MTU 1480 qdisc nop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group DEFAULT
> >> link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
> >>
> >> Although it didn't look right, I tried to "raise" it with IP
> >> 192.168.0.110 to see what
> >> happens. ifconfig shows this:
> >>
> >> sit0
> >> Link encap: IPv6-in-IPv4
> >> inet addr: 192.168.0.110 netmask...
> >> NOARP MTU: 1480 Metric: 1
> >>
> >> So from what I read this is just a pseudo interface for tunneling IPv6
> >> through IPv4.
> >>
> >> I obviously can't ping anything ("Network is unreachable").
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Andrei Banu
> > I believe that sit0 is just an IPv6 tunnel, not an actual interface. You
> > are most likely missing a driver for your network card in the kernel.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Yes, that's true regarding sit0. So I guess I need to recompile the
> kernel. But what should I do differently?
>
> Kind regards!
Use dmesg to check on your build host which driver your network card uses.
Write it down. Then configure it into your LFS kernel. Some card drivers have
very similar names; I had exactly the same experience as you when I
accidentally specified the wrong driver.
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