bf2.4 badly installed, no network (no dhcp, via-rhine module)
I had a potato on an old P75 which fried. I installed the (second) disk in a
AMD Duron 900MHz system with following hardware : voodoo 5500 (64Mo)
graphics card and SoundBlaster Live!. So, I decided to not use the potato
CDROM but go directly with woody, bf2.4 flavor, as a 2.4 kernel should have
built in support (drm, emu10l1).
I had to write floppies boot, root and the 4 drivers floppies (no way to
understand how the installer search a vfat disk for drivers.tgz). The
installation of the kernel and modules was very smooth : I have a DFE 530TX
ethernet card and a cable modem connection : via-rhine module was taken into
account the first time and the base system was downloaded from
htp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian. But I have not reinitialized the /
partition, and configuration of the base system was stopped with question
(on the virtual console 4) such as do you want to use the lilo
configuration file [Yes] (not sure of the phrasing). And I had to erase a
/usr/bin/awk symlink to proceed (many attempts). And stop at configuring
exim or similar.
So lilo was not run, but I rebooted with the boot floppy and boot: rescue
root=/dev/hdb6 ran fine.
The problem is that the coonection is lost.
Here is the end of dmesg
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,72), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. # it is /usr partition
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.13 Nov-17-2001 Written by Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
(I have run modconf : remove via-rhine and insert via-rhine).
output of lsmod :
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_cp437 4384 2 (autoclean)
emu10k1 55712 0 (unused)
sound 52876 0 [emu10k1]
ac97_codec 9568 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3236 7 [emu10k1 sound]
via-rhine 12452 0 (unused)
apm 9148 0 (unused)
tdfx 35064 0 (unused)
agpgart 29824 0 (unused)
I have added at the end of /etc/modutils/aliases :
alias cipher-11 rc62
alias cipher-15 dfc2
alias cipher-16 rijndael
alias cipher-17 rc5
alias eth0 via-rhine
alias char-major-14 emu10k1
alias sound emu10k1
As I saw that there was no alias for ether0 in modules.conf (I don't know
if (or where) modconf would have put these aliases and which command should
be run update-modules)
The configuring the network sequence was long and unsuccessful
output of ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
So, I found that /etc/init.d/networking restart would run ifup -a, I tried
ifup -? to have the help and then
ifup -a -n to have the commands.
I then determined the dhclient command :
output of dhclient-2.2.x eth0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
execve (/etc/dhclient-script, ...): No such file or directory
exiting.
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:ba:a1:5e:d2
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:ba:a1:5e:d2
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
send_packet: Network is down
receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
send_packet: Network is down
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.
execve (/etc/dhclient-script, ...): No such file or directory
exiting.
Sleeping.
Similarly, pump (from potato)
Operation failed.
The hardware is OK (I type this message on it), The ethernet card is good,
the DHCP server was found by Windows, the basedebs were downloaded on sunday
with the boot floppy software. What is different? What should be the content
of dhclient-script?
Regards.
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