Gerard van Antwerpen wrote: > Trying to set up a gateway / modem share on our LAN with Slackware 8.0.
Ahh, a fellow Slackware user :) > Install went ok, now i'm having problems with the nic. Card is a DE-220 > (PnP disabled) , I load the module for a standard NE-2000 and that seems > to work ok. Card is recognized, but when doing ifconfig or ping the > following is displayed: 'no usable address families found' 'socket: no > such file or directory' > > What am I doing wrong?? The bad news is that I've never seen that error before. Just off the top of my head you could check out /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 and make sure it contains correct information (or you can run /sbin/netconfig as root, but that should have been done as part of the installation process). Looking at the ifconfig manpage I wonder if you're trying to set up a protocol that your kernel doesn't support (eg IPv6). Here's what my rc.inet1 file does to set up my network adaptor: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.28.4 broadcast 192.168.28.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 (the above should be on one line but my mailer has wrapped it) Substitute your IP and broadcast addresses appropriately. > The hardware is fine, I just ran BasicLinux from the floppy and the > network runs fine with that. I used the Ne2k module there as well but also > the 8390 one, which seems not to be there in Slackware (might not be > required?) You should only need one driver. NE2k should be fine; thats the one I use for the cheap-n-nasty 10Mbit card in my workstation. If you need a different driver thats not supplied, you'll need to compile one. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (out of date)
