Greetings fellow Linuxers.
Being the sadist that I am, I decided to download Slackware
packages 'a' and 'n' and to setup a small DNS for my network. The
reason for choosing Slackware over my current "experience" in
RedHat is for two reasons:
a) RedHat's installation will install stuff even if you ask it not to (a
good example of this is X-Windows.. "would you like to install it?"
No. "Okay, I've detected this video card, I am installing this version
of X-Windows!" and so I have to sit there with manual at hand and
uninstall all the extra applications I will never use and that take up
too much space. My DNS has just 120 MB of HD space, and I
wanted to keep the space as low as possible.
b) RedHat has been spoiling me, since, indeed it is very easy to
set things up, so I wanted to give a shot to something more..
rough, hence Slackware.
Anyway, I digress.
So, being a newbie in linux, the first Slackware dilemma has
arrived. While I am able to follow the latest DNS-How-To to set up
Bind-8 without too many problems (they tend to solve themselves
after a day I leave the machine alone and I take a look at things
again), I am having trouble installing correctly my network card.
The computer in question is a Compaq 486-SX with 16 MB of RAM,
and a 16 MB swap. I'm running Slackware 4.0, only packages 'a'
and 'n', and only about half of the stuff that was in them (news
readers, lynx, apache and stuff like that, I've all skipped).
I opened up my conf.modules, and entered the alias for my 3Com
3c509 network card. I have this same type of card in my other two
linux boxes and it works just fine. (Just for the record, I don't have
an "options" setting, since the settings are already correct without
it.. besides, with it, when I do the following -- see a few steps below
-- the card doesn't activate itself).
Unfortunately when I boot I get this error:
....
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSFIBRDADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
Activating IPv4 packet forwarding...
....
Then the login.
When I login, if I run /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 I get the same error.
At this point I gave a shot at installing the module with insmod
3c509. The prompt reports:
eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 2d 46
5f, IRQ 10.
followed by the revision of the driver and then the port.
Okay.. running /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 gives me this error now:
SIOCADDRT: File exists
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
After that, using IP numbers (I did not configure the DNS nor have I
entered any info in hosts.conf) as of yet, and I was able to ftp,
telnet, etc. into the other two machines on the network.
I was happy. But of course, each time I reboot, the same problem
persists.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
leandro
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Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672)
Capital of Nasty Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Editor in Chief - http://www.capnasty.org
