Re: Networking problems with 2.2 kernel and potato
On Thu 20 Jan 2000, Martin D Hock wrote:
> Because Debian on Alpha doesn't work very well with the 2.0 kernel (at
> least on my Miata type machine), I upgraded to 2.2. The problems included
> the known init issue as well as multiple X things. The libncurses4
> problem is nothing to sneeze at either, but at least it's managable. Also,
> I'm running a fairly minimal unstable (woody, now?) dist-upgraded from the
> slink base.
For the time being I think you're best off following frozen.
Unstable won't get any human attention until the release, I expect
(unstable will be handled by the autobuilder).
> But neither the stock 2.2.13 nor the 2.2.14 I build myself seems to work
> with the ethernet, though 2.0 did. I cannot contact any IPs other than
> 127.0.0.1. Has anyone else had this problem? Could someone give me some
> ideas? When displaying the routing tables with the route command, it
> hangs after showing localnet. And the card is recognized and everything on
> bootup. (It's a tulip.) Thanks.
Isn't the last problem a DNS lookup problem? Try "netstat -rn" to
display the routing table in numbers, not names.
Besides that, you can probably use either the de4x5 or the tulip driver.
Some people can't get the one to work, others the other. I'm one of
those who have to use the de4x5 because the tulip simply won't do
anything useful. So try the other...
Paul Slootman
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