> > The Dell continues to behave strangely. For reasons beyond my > knowledge, rc.inet1.conf lost the NO in the line 'use dhcp' for eth0. > That's why resolv.conf was constantly being emptied. I modified the network > configuration file and upon rebooting the resolv.conf contents were > retained. But, for some (again) unknown reason, rc.inetd is not being run > so there is no network deamon and no routes. Manually running > /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd start restored the routes. If need be, I can duplicate > that line in rc.local. It would be nice to learn why it's not being run > during the boot process. > > This still leaves one issue that I have not been able to resolve despite > searching the Web for insights: eth0 has no carrier. >
Rich - "no carrier" simply means there is no Ethernet signal for which to carry data over. It's generally indicative of a physical layer issue, bad cable, port nic, etc. However, if you've got a link light on both ends of the Ethernet cable then all is well at the physical layer. However, when you combine that with the rc.inetd script not being run it makes me wonder if you have the wrong nic driver/module. The reason I say this is because if you look at the rc.inet1.conf script, it will do nothing if the nic kernel driver is not loaded. # Function to bring up a network interface. If the interface is # already up or does not yet exist (perhaps because the kernel driver # is not loaded yet), do nothing. http://slackware.com/~alien/rc_scripts/rc.inet1 'lspci" will list out the Ethernet and wireless network controllers 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02) 07:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05) Then if I run lsmod and grep on rtl for the Realtek nic, I can see the kernel modules are loaded: lsmod | grep rtl rtl8192ce 56076 0 rtlwifi 71765 1 rtl8192ce rtl8192c_common 43842 1 rtl8192ce mac80211 171389 3 rtl8192c_common,rtlwifi,rtl8192ce cfg80211 113445 2 mac80211,rtlwifi usbcore 104555 8 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,ums_realtek,usbhid,rtlwifi,uvcvideo I hope that helps point you in the right direction. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
