-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 19 November 2003 12:54 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
I had a response all typed out when the power died. Damn... > Hi Charlie, > > I think my problem is *almost* fixed! ... read on... > > On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:02:26 AM PST, you wrote: > > Have I mentioned that you have to change the connection to the > > ethernet port yet? <eg> > > Hee hee...I have a semi-embarrassing confession (but *almost* > understandable!)... Understandable now. You'll get there Melissa. (-; Most of what I posted before was geared toward getting you to slow down and think your way out of the box you were getting into. That's why there was an <eg> (evil grin) at the end. > Indeed...my Linksys cable modem *was* connected to the Ethernet > adaptor via the proper cable. However...here's one thing that > confused both Mandrake and myself... > > This is a new computer. My old computer didn't have the Ethernet card, > so I had to connect the modem via USB. When we hooked up the new > computer, while the correct connection was made to the Ethernet > adaptor, the old USB cable was plugged into a USB port (though it was > just hanging there...going to nowhere). I unplugged the unhappy cable > to nowhere, and Mandrake no longer detects this mysterious USB > connection (and no longer tries to connect to it). OK, since it has never made an ethernet connection you may actually have to call the ISP and give them the MAC address. Doubtful; of the three broadband providers here only one requires this to make a connection from a GNU/Linux box. > Just to be safe (or at least to try anything), I unplugged my modem, > waited a bit, then plugged it in again, and re-started the computer > (booting into Mandrake). During the boot up, Mandrake's network > connection wizard detected the "new" LAN, and asked if I wanted to > configure it. Yes! :-) I went through all the steps, and watched as > it *successfully* detected my IP address, etc., then at the end, it > said that all was successful. However... A modem reset is always in order before further trouble shooting. > Once in KDE, I was still not connected, and the LAN Configuration in > Mandrake Control Center still said this (as it still does at this > moment): Now that you've seen the connection once you should be able to get it up and running permanently. Forget all the "Click here, then Click there" stuff. Open terminal (konsole) and type: su <enter> and give the root password. Then type: drakconnect <enter> When the Network & Internet Configuration dialogue opens leave the auto selection checked and check the Expert Mode entry as well and click Next. Remove the x from the LAN connection - ethernet card(s) detected and instead select cable connection. The next dialogue is just information, click next again, say no to the question (usually repeated twice) about other ethernet cards, then be sure to select dhcp-client in the pull down and click Next again. The next screen will have an informational area and some selection boxes. The ones you want to have x'es in them are: Automatic IP (bootp/dhcp/zeroconf) and in the scrollable area below Netmask Assign host name from DHCP address Start at boot Click next. Ignore the Zeroconf Hostname and leave it blank, also the hostname. They'll be populated by the dhcp-client. Click Next again. Skip HTTP proxy FTP proxy unless you are using them. You'll know if you are. (-: Click Next again. Be sure Yes is selected at the Configuration is complete....settings? screen and click Next. Yes and Next at the ...network needs to be restarted....? screen. Click Finish. You should be good to go. > Interface: eth0 > IP Address: No IP > Protocol: dhcp > Driver: sis900 > State: down If you still have no connection after that you still have the super user konsole open, type: dhclient The output should be similar to below. If not post it and we'll see. Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc11 Copyright 1995-2002 Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Listening on LPF/lo/ Sending on LPF/lo/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:a0:0c:c1:d1:b6 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:a0:0c:c1:d1:b6 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER from 24.66.232.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 24.66.232.1 bound to 24.66.233.146 -- renewal in 65741 seconds. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nanook]# > I tried to run the configuration wizard from the Control Center, and > again, it *said* that it was successful...but still no joy. > > Also, when I tried to re-start, and watch the boot process in verbose > mode, I saw something like this (paraphrased badly, because it went by > quickly, so I'm going on sketchy memory): > > Interface eth0 [Failed] > Interface eth1 sis900 device does not seem to be present delaying > initialization [Failed]... and so on > > Then...I got an email from someone from a different list, and here's > what he provided: > > ===================================================================== > Mandrake Linux Update Advisory > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Package name: drakxtools > Advisory ID: MDKA-2003:027 > Date: November 14th, 2003 > > Affected versions: 9.2 > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Problem Description: > > A number of bugs have been fixed in the drakxtools package. Primarily, > problems with drakconnect were fixed. The old behaviour of drakconnect > to detect network interfaces was to load all of the network modules > corresponding to current hardware and look for network interfaces > created by the module loading. However, determining network > interfaces in this way prevented drakconnect from ever seeing USB > ethernet adapters. As well, the way in which drakconnect mapped real > network interfaces to a logical configuration prevented drakconnect from > mapping interfaces without an alias in /etc/modules.conf. Finally, > drakconnect had problems handling wireless network devices correctly. > The updated package also provides a more up-to-date wireless modules > list so drakconnect is able to determine more types of wireless > devices. > > A number of other smaller bugs have been repaired as well and > MandrakeSoft encourages all users to upgrade to these new packages. > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Updated Packages: > > Mandrake Linux 9.2: > 93c41f233aea463f39f97e21cce25945 > 9.2/RPMS/drakxtools-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm > 2bd5241c7b74c49c8cbdb0977e1a073c > 9.2/RPMS/drakxtools-http-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm > 98fd8998ebf5c1b11f2e09413502d40e > 9.2/RPMS/drakxtools-newt-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm > 5c61431417ce4b5c47aec2f1136f0143 > 9.2/RPMS/harddrake-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm 7008bb1b92e57666146e40fbf3025fd7 > 9.2/RPMS/harddrake-ui-9.2-19.2.92mdk.i586.rpm > 143eabb1365119112210a3d3afba288d > 9.2/SRPMS/drakxtools-9.2-19.2.92mdk.src.rpm > ===================================================================== > > Well now, even though the above does mention "USB ethernet adaptors", > and I no longer have *that* problem (never did, apparently :-)), I'm > still wondering if I should need those updated bits to make even my > current problems go away? In any event, I now have a question > regarding this: > > Since when I'm in Mandrake, I can only connect using the dial-up, and > the above packages are over 15 MB in size, can I, from Windows, go > somewhere to search for the specific updates (and others), download > them with my working cable connection, burn them to CD-R, then from > Mandrake, install them from the CD-R? > > It sure would be a lot faster than trying to download them via > Mandrake Update at this point. > > Thanks for your continued patience with me! :-) As for the updates you burned to disk, in that super user konsole, with the CD in the drive, type: mkdir /updates then cp *.rpm /mnt/cdrom /home/melissa/updates <enter> then follow the advice of the others to install the required ones. Which I don't know yet. <g> Holler if you need to. Whenever you need to. Peace; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:24:56 up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.24, 0.17 The only cultural advantage LA has over NY is that you can make a right turn on a red light. -- Woody Allen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/u/ZpG11CaRuZZSIRAvmrAJ40/SUPkAdDbrj/3Mj9TzOo7nrFlgCfU725 a1AeiOCA/9XXcl0HKgcNgb8= =l4eM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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