Bug#144067: boot-floppies: No ifconfig and bad route table for PCMCIA Linksys EC2T net install
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-22
Severity: important
I had a significant detour while trying to install Woody on a Compaq
Presario using a netinst CD I found at
http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/bootcompact.iso. I was able to do
the same install via potato without any problems.
The NIC is a Linksys EC2T PCMCIA card. The network is half-duplex 10BaseT.
Here's what I did after booting from the CD with bootcompact.iso:
Select en from the list of languages.
hda5 is ext2.
Install kernel and device modules.
Yes, use the debian cd-rom in the drive.
Configure PCMCIA support
Default (PCMCIA controller, no serial devices or cd-rom devices)
Intel i82365sl or compatible
No controller options
No core options
No cardmgr options
Two high beeps. Link light is on for the NIC.
Configure device driver modules
Exit (because I didn't need any drivers under potato after configuring
PCMCIA)
Configure the network
Hostname helix
Yes, the nic is PCMCIA.
Do not use DHCP.
IP 64.161.114.5
netmask 255.255.255.248
Gateway 64.161.114.1
Domain name helix.fungible.com
DNS servers 206.13.28.12 206.13.31.12 204.156.128.1
Auto-detect tranceiver type
One beep. Two beeps. "Your network is configured but not activated".
Flipping to the extra console, /var/log/messages ends with the lines
Starting 'cardmgr '
starting, version is 3.1.31
watching 1 sockets
socket 0: Linksys Ethernet
executing: 'modprobe 8390'
executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs'
executing: './network start eth0'
+ cat: /var/lib/misc/pcmcia-scheme: No such file or directory
which all look pretty normal when I compare with what happens with the
potato install. ifconfig reports that eth0 is not up. At this point
I had to visit #debian-boot and ask for help, which was very useful.
If I say
ifconfig eth0 64.161.114.5 up
the network does come up, but the routing table is wrong. It says I
have all of 64.0.0.0, which I don't, and there's no default route.
Giving these commands cleans it up (the commands are from memory, so
they may be slightly off).
route del -net 64.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev eth0
route add -net 64.161.114.0 netmask 255.255.255.248 dev eth0
route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gateway 64.161.114.1 dev eth0
After this I could continue with the network install which appeared to
complete successfully.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux lobus.fungible.com 2.4.17 #6 Sun Mar 31 13:05:51 PST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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