[Voyage-linux] eth0 not working with ALIX3D2

[Jordi Puigsegur]

Hi,

I just selected a IP that was outside the DHCP range of my router.

Best regards,
Jordi.

2010/2/10 Rainer Stratmann <RainerStratmann at t-online.de>

> Hello,
> how to set up a static IP and if there is a DHCP router overwrite the IP.
> Is that possible?
> best regards, Rainer
>
> Am Wednesday 10 February 2010 22:20:07 schrieb Jordi Puigsegur:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Finally I got it working with a static IP. Here is a recollection of it
> > just in case it might help someone (I know it's basic stuff...).
> >
> > You assumed right: eth0 gets the IP from DHCP. I use a voyage linux 0.6.2
> > out of the box. And this is the output at boot time (through serial
> port):
> >
> > Setting up networking....
> > Configuring network interfaces...[   18.658114] eth0: link up, 100Mbps,
> > full-du1
> > Operation failed.
> > Failed to bring up eth0.
> > done.
> > Starting portmap daemon....
> > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> >
> > And this is the output of ifdown / ifup
> >
> > voyage:~# ifdown eth0
> > ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
> > voyage:~# ifup eth0
> > [  121.910943] via-rhine: Reset not complete yet. Trying harder.
> > [  121.912129] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
> > Operation failed.
> > Failed to bring up eth0.
> >
> > Actually, at some point the voyage box appears at the router's DHCP and
> > then it disappears ... so I though it could have to do with DHCP
> > configuration and tried a static IP (editting /etc/network/interfaces):
> >
> > #auto eth0
> > #iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet static
> >         address 192.168.1.25
> >         netmask 255.255.255.0
> >         broadcast 192.168.1.255
> >         gateway 192.168.1.1
> >
> > Then it works, but DNS doesn't:
> >
> > voyage:~# ping linux.voyage.hk
> > ping: unknown host
> >
> > So I edit /etc/resolv.conf and add two nameserver entries, the sames that
> > would be used by DHCP. Now everything works.
> >
> > Don't know if this is going to help someone or if there is a better way
> to
> > set things up. I was probably going to configure anyway a fixed IP so I
> > don't care about DHCP not working.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jordi.
> >
> > 2010/2/10 Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com>
> >
> > > Hi Jordi,
> > >
> > > I think many of the users didn't encounter the problem you have.  Try
> to
> > > do "ifdown eth0" and "ifup eth0" to see if it can be restart.  Of
> course,
> > > I assume eth0 get the IP from DHCP.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Punky
> > >
> > > Jordi Puigsegur wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I just tryied Voyage linux 0.6.2 on a PC Engines ALIX 3D2 board.
> > >> Everything works, except network. eth0 fails to start. Voyage 0.5.2
> > >> works ok, but I'd rather have the more up to date lenny packages!
> > >>
> > >> Any idea where to look at or know issue ?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance,
> > >> Jordi.
> > >>
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