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connection you have to the internet. Is it through some kind of router (SNF ? 
), and if so, does it have a dhcp server? If so are you running dhcpcd 
locally ? Can you ping the router ? What does ifconfig tell you ? Etc.

Bob Finch


On Thursday 20 February 2003 04:46 pm, Keith Adney wrote:
> Hi. I'm hi-time on computers, mid-time on Linux, lo-time on Arch.
> I went looking for the "perfect" distro, found SGL/Sorcerer/Lunar,
> picked Lunar, had trouble installing, and someone from this list
> wrote suggesting I try Arch. Since my machine is (A) a P II, and (B)
> 350 MHz, Arch sounds perfect (I'd really rather not spend half my
> time doing compiles, and I tend to 'play' w/pkgs a lot). I also
> have 448MB, 10GB & 1.5GB HDs, and a vanilla NIC using tulip driver
> (works fine w/Mandrake). I'm on a local LAN using a Mandrake SNF
> firewall (cool F/W; 60MHz P I w/32MB ;) with DHCP connected to a
> cable modem.
>
> After Bill Gates ate 2 wks of email AGAIN a month ago, I decided to
> try the "don't boot Windows for a month" deal. I guess I failed; I
> removed my Windows partition 2 wks ago. ;)
>
> Mandrake 9.0 is my 'primary' O/S; /boot at hda1, root at hda6.
> Shared swap partition of 224MB at hdd1 (reasonable size?),
> /home/shared is at hdd2 (rest of drive) for data exchange between
> the two.
>
> I've gotten Arch 'installed,' so to speak; /boot at hda2, root at
> hda6. However, I can't get my NIC to work.
>
> I suspect that I've screwed up an entry concerning the NIC in either
> resolv.conf, modules.conf, or rc.conf. I've listed the relevant
> parts of each below (trying for brevity, anyway):
>
> hosts: (for the hell of it)
> --------
> 127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain	localhost
> 127.0.0.1		kpadesk.stoney.crk	kpadesk
> --------
>
> *** My Local "workgroup"/domain ID is, obviously, "stoney.crk" ***
>
> resolv.conf :
> --------------
> nameserver 24.226.1.46
> --------------
>
> Note this is the same entry as in my Mandrake install. I don't know
> why there wasn't a search entry first; I know that in the past I've
> seen my ISP domain in there (which changes periodically). I can't
> seem to discern the current one from SNF. Anyone know how to get
> SNF to tell you that? Is the search entry absolutely necessary
> (Mandrake seems to do fine w/o it)? Would my local LAN (stoney.crk)
> be an acceptable substitute (I doubt this, but I'm grasping at
> straws here)?
>
> modules.conf:
> -----------------
> probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
> alias eth0 tulip
> -----------------
>
> The ide-scsi entry is for a CD-RW. I copied this from somewhere in
> the Arch docs. Is this entry correct?
>
> rc.conf:
> ---------
> HOSTNAME="kpadesk.stoney.crk"
>
> *** Should this be "kpadesk" or is it correct as is? ***
>
> lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
> #eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 ~
> 	broadcast 192.168.0.255"
> eth0="dhcp"
> INTERFACES=(lo eth0)
>
> gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
> ROUTES=(gateway)
>
> *** Firewall IP is 192.168.1.1 ***
> ---------
>
> I also tried inserting a "MODULES=(tulip)" line in rc.conf, to no
> avail.
>
> Note than an "insmod tulip" after booting "works" (ie no error
> messages), although I still can't use my NIC.
>
> I get a flurry on error msgs at boottime (too fast to catch -
> something about "/network line16: /usr/sbin/dhcpcd: No such file or
> directory" and "/usr/sbin/insmod exited abnormally)." These msgs
> are not in any log I can locate (certainly not in anything in
> /var/log).  Below are the (hopefully) relevant entries from
> /var/log/kernel (blank line represents a snip):
> ------------------
> Feb 20 14:12:14 kpadesk kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Arch
> ro root=306 hdc=ide-scsi
> Feb 20 14:12:15 kpadesk kernel: ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
> Feb 20 14:12:15 kpadesk kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS --
> reenabling.
>
> Feb 20 14:12:17 kpadesk kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> Feb 20 14:12:17 kpadesk kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Feb 20 14:12:17 kpadesk kernel: Based upon Swansea University
> Computer Society NET3.039
> Feb 20 14:12:17 kpadesk kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
>
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel: PIIX4: not 100%% native mode: will
> probe irqs later
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7,
> BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf,
> BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel: hda: WDC AC310100B, ATA DISK drive
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel: hdb: CREATIVE CD5233E, ATAPI
> CD/DVD-ROM drive
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel: hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX175A, ATAPI
> CD/DVD-ROM drive
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel: hdd: WDC AC21600H, ATA DISK drive
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Feb 20 14:12:18 kpadesk kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096
> buckets, 32Kbytes
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured
> (established 32768 bind 32768)
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP
> for Linux NET4.0.
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: uhci.c: de00: suspend_hc
> Feb 20 14:12:24 kpadesk kernel: ds: no socket drivers loaded!
>
> *** Don't miss the msg above ***
>
> Feb 20 14:12:25 kpadesk kernel: Using r5 hash to sort names
> Feb 20 14:12:25 kpadesk kernel: ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> Feb 20 14:12:25 kpadesk kernel: VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs
> filesystem) readonly.
> Feb 20 14:12:25 kpadesk kernel: Trying to move old root to /initrd
> ... failed
>
> *** Or the one above ***
>
> Feb 20 14:12:26 kpadesk kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
> Feb 20 14:17:38 kpadesk kernel: Linux Tulip driver version
> 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
> Feb 20 14:17:38 kpadesk kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0e.0
> Feb 20 14:17:38 kpadesk kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xdc00,
> 00:C0:26:C0:84:EC, IRQ 10.
>
> Feb 20 14:42:14 kpadesk kernel: ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> Feb 20 18:22:13 kpadesk kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
> *** Is the one above important? ***
> ------------------
>
> lilo.conf has an entry Labelled 'arch', and one labelled
> 'arch-initrd'. Do I need to use the latter to fix the message RE
> "Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed"?
>
> I'm actually doing the LILO work via Mandrake (since I know how
> there). It seems to be working (I can boot Arch from the
> Mandrake-installed LILO).
>
> Do most of you who dual-boot use GRUB?
>
> Looking forward to learning this distro - TIA. And, I'll try to be
> considerably more concise in the future. I thought some background
> would be helpful, if not required...
>
>
> Blue Skies...Keith
>
>
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