On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
> 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:
>
> ....
> SSIOCSIFADDR: 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:
This might not help one little bit, but when my cable company
installed the cble modem and a ethernet card it looked like a 309 but
i would not work, i used 3c59x and bingo.
>
> 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)
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> Editor in Chief - http://www.capnasty.org
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Regards Richard
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