[Voyage-linux] Having trouble with DHCP settings

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE (spam-protected)
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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