On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:52:30 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 19:16 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
[...]
> I think I must have retyped that correctly, because bash turned
the uname
> part into "2.6.19-1.2895.fc6" and left the rest. But I also think I do not
> have it, because bash then added ":No such file or directory"
Hmmm. Let me try:
[root@prophead ~]# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2869.fc6/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko
Odd : you appear to be running an older kernel than I got off my CD ...
>
> Anybody know a straightforward way to get it from the CDs?
It's part of the kernel RPM. If you've installed the kernel, you've got
it.
So, here's what to do:
1. Run "su -" and become root
2. Run "ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko" and
verify you have the file.
Aargh. It says "ls: /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko: no
such file or directory"
3. Delete the "/etc/sysconfig/hwconf" file and run kudzu to
rediscover
your hardware:
rm /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
kudzu
I did that slightly differently, just to be sure : "cd /etc/sysconfig"
followed by "ls | grep hw" -- which did give me hwconf -- then deleted it
and ran kudzu (which gave me my prompt back, with no report).
4. Run "modprobe e100" to load the driver 5.
That gave
"FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/modules.dep: No such
file or directory."
So I did cd / (just to be sure), then cd /lib, then ls; sure enough,
there's a subdirectory called modules. So I tried cd modules, then ls --
and all it contains is a subdirectory, called *not* 2.6.19-[and so on], as
we got from `uname -r` -- but 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
I looked in that. It contains build, extra, kernel, source, updates,
weak-updates, and eleven things of the form modules.*
Here I stop for now -- have we discovered something?
Run "ifconfig" and verify
you have device eth0. 6. Try to configure eth0 using the command line:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.255.0
7. Try "ifconfig" again. You should see something like:
[root@prophead ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:FE:02:16:38
inet addr:192.168.0.254 Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:feff:fe02:1638/64 Scope:Link UP
BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX
packets:33007499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX
packets:15837216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2322911622 (2.1 GiB) TX bytes:616269113 (587.7 MiB)
Interrupt:193
The "HWaddr", "inet6 addr:", "Interrupt" and traffic info
(RX/TX bytes)
will differ from what I show above, but you get the idea.
8. If you see that stuff, great! Edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and
add a line that reads:
alias eth0 e100
9. Run your normal configuration. Delete all existing configs and put
in the new stuff you want.
That should handle it.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.