Hey Sluggers,
I'm after some help (if anyone is willing and able) with E-smith 4.0 details
are as follows:
I've recently installed V4.0 on a HP 6611. (Celeron 533 i810 Motherboard
with DE500 NIC) Install was sensational and flawless (or so I thought :-)) a
very nice product to use (and using it a lot I will be if I can resolve
these issues).
The install proceeded fine and didn't appear to have any problems I
orginally selected to use DHCP and since then have tried it a number of
times on a number of machines with and without DHCP (which I orginally
thought was causing the problem) but every time I get the same problem.
The problem is the network doesn't appear to be functioning pinging from
another machine on the network results in nothing.. there isn't any activity
whatsoever indicated at the hub/switch it's connected to and there isn't
even any lights on the bcak of the card itself.. The card (well the present
one I'm using I've used a couple) is a Digital DE500 "Tulip" card I've had
no problems with it before and I know it's working at present as I
reinstalled both Linux and Windows on the machine I was using to check.
There aren't any warnings or errors during startup except when DHCP is
enabled and it says something to the effect of SIOCADDRT: Network is Down
and then fails to start properly claiming a subnet for eth0 needs to be
declared (which I've checked and it's already there).
I'm at something of a loss. I'm not a total Linux newbie but I wouldn't say
I'm the worlds most knowledgeable when it comes to Linux and networks but
I've tried everything I can possibly think of (:-) But I'm sure there's
something I've missed) I can provide logs and the like.. For those of you
who've used E-Smith the config I'm using is totally standard at this stage
and it's been set up for Internet Server - Dialup I've tried with both DHCP
on and off and the only duifference seems to be the lack of the DHCP error
message on startup when it's turned off.
I'd be awfully appreciative if anyone could shed some light on this for me
or even provide some suggestions as to things to try.
Thanks,
Dan.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
