On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Preble RyanSrA 31CS/SCBBSS wrote about, network configuration:
> I was wondering if anybody could provide any assistance on setting
> up my dual boot machine for the network. I am running Caldera 2.2 with
> win98 and am unable to get up on the network Caldera wise. I downloaded
> some docs and faqs but did not solve my problem.
> Whenever I try to start the dhcp service and obtain an ip address it
> just tells me unable to contact dhcp server. i have worked with Linux just
> a little and i am sure it is something in the settings with ethernet
> addressing under COAS but am not sure.
> i have a 3COM 3c905b nic that works fine under 98 so I know that is not the
> problem.
> If you can help please let me know.
We could help you, but you are not helping us very much with so little
information abiout what is happening.
The dhcp service will not work unless the card is initialised at bootime or
you load its driver and configure the card manualy.
What normaly happens at bootime is something like the following, i am
quoting "slackware" here.
The NIC gets initalised by modprobe the manual command for your NIC is;
modprobe 3c59x
Now one would issue /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
rc.inet1 looks basicly "somethig" like;
IPADDR="127.0.0.1" # REPLACE with YOUR IP address!
NETMASK="255.255.255.0" # REPLACE with YOUR netmask!
NETWORK="127.0.0.0" # REPLACE with YOUR network address!
BROADCAST="" # REPLACE with YOUR broadcast address, if you
# have one. If not, leave blank and edit below.
GATEWAY="" # REPLACE with YOUR gateway address!
# To use DHCP instead of a static IP, set this value to "yes":
DHCP="yes" # Use DHCP ("yes" or "no")
# OK, time to set up the interface:
if [ "$DHCP" = "yes" ]; then # use DHCP to set everything up:
echo "Attempting to configure eth0 by contacting a DHCP server..."
/sbin/dhcpcd
elif [ ! "$IPADDR" = "127.0.0.1" ]; then # set up IP statically:
# Set up the ethernet card:
echo "Configuring eth0 as ${IPADDR}..."
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK}
fi
Now we are going to confuse the issue a little by giving another example,
one would do at the command line;
modprobe 3c59x
ifconfig eth 0 0.0.0 up
dhclient eth0
dhclient will now attempt to get an ip# address An ISP who is listening for
dchp broadcasts.
If your system refuses to get a ip number from YOUR ISP, then a few
questions come to mind.
1) what does 'ifconfig eth0' say just after bootup.???
2) what are the messages in /var/log/messages or syslog, i dont know what
caldera uses for its log files, normaly /etc/syslog.conf will show where
the messages are sent to.
I have a bootable cdrom here from caldera, i must admit when i installed it
a while ago it did not detect my NIC which is also a 3c59x (it did not even
configure my mouse) but thats another story.
Give us some more info to go on, i am sure we can get it going for you,
in between time i will play with caldera and see what happens, o having
said that i would have t reinstall it, as i did not like things i saw and
the way it decided to install itself. It was so slow on the install as
well, now i know why they put a game of all dam things on the screen while
its installing.
>
> Thanks in advanced Ryan
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Regards Richard
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