[Voyage-linux] Having trouble with DHCP settings
Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
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Wed Mar 12 11:17:36 HKT 2008
Hi Arun,
I think Voyage kernel missed the ethernet driver for your environment.
But can you tell me what ethernet driver I need to add to voyage kernel
in order to support your environment?
- Punky
Arun Reddy wrote:
> Sorry, I just realized I didn't post this to the list!
>
> Under Ethernet controller, it says: Digital Equipment Corporation
> DECchip 21140. It says it's an unknown device.
>
> My computer has the following Network Adapters (found from the Windows
> Device Manager, since I am running Voyage in a VPC):
>
> Atheros Wireless Network Adapter
> Intel(R) 82566MM Gigabit Platform LAN Connect
>
> Is there a way to add these? Also in the VPC network settings I chose
> Atheros Wireless Network Adapter. This works fine with my standard
> Debian OS I have running in another VPC.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
> <punkytse at punknix.com <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>> wrote:
>
> You have no NIC or voyage kernel doesn't recognize it. What
> nic do you
> have?
>
> "lspci -v"
>
> Regards,
> Punky
>
> Arun Reddy wrote:
> > I am given:
> >
> > lo
> >
> > Link encap:Local Loopback
> > LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1
> > RX packets:0....
> >
> > Does this mean I need to add eth0 as a device?
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
> > <punkytse at punknix.com <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>
> <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>>>
> wrote:
> >
> > But how come you did not have eth0? run ifconfig -a to
> see the net
> > devices you have.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Punky
> >
> > Arun Reddy wrote:
> > > Hi Punky,
> > >
> > > The output of ifconfig eth0 gives: "error fetching
> interface
> > > information: Device not found."
> > >
> > > The output of dhclient eth0 gives: "eth0 ERROR while
> getting
> > interface
> > > flags: No such device
> > > Bind socket to interface: No such device"
> > >
> > > I have read some posts on those leases. I tried
> editing the
> > > /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf and made sure all the lines
> were uncommented.
> > > And this configuration is called within /etc/dnsmasq.conf.
> > > Unfortunately it still doesn't detect dhcp.
> > >
> > > Do you know what else I must do? Thanks.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
> > > <punkytse at punknix.com <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>
> <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>>
> > <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com
> <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com> <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com
> <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>>>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can you send the output of:
> > > 1. "ifconfig eth0"
> > > 2. then run with "dhclient eth0" to you can get
> DHCP lease?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Punky
> > >
> > > Arun Reddy wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone. This is my first time using Voyage
> and I just
> > finished
> > > > getting through the live-cd installation. I need
> to set my
> > network
> > > > connections to use the package manager, but it
> won't seem to
> > > accept my
> > > > settings in /etc/network/interfaces:
> > > >
> > > > auto lo
> > > > iface lo inet loopback
> > > >
> > > > auto eth0
> > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone happen to know what I must do to fix
> my dhcp
> > settings?
> > > > Thank you in advance.
> > > >
> > >
> >
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