Re: Averatec 1020 vs Knoppix 5.0.1

[Shane Geiger <sgeiger@ncee.net>]

Hugh,

Commands useful in these sorts of situations:

"sudo ifconfig" - shows interface info
"sudo iwconfig" - shows info on which interfaces have wireless capabilities

Sometimes interfaces can come up in an order you aren't expecting, so 
don't always count on eth0 being the built-in ethernet interface.

You can specify which name an interface gets with the "nameif" utility: 

nameif -s eth0  00:11:25:46:F5:18
nameif -s eth1  00:02:2D:38:82:2C


You can use nameif in /etc/network/interfaces with pre-up to name the 
interface before it gets brought up:

   auto eth0
   iface eth0 inet dhcp
   pre-up nameif -s eth0  00:11:25:46:F5:18

After you are done editing that file do "sudo ifdown --all ; sudo ifup 
--all"


Jody Noury wrote:
> Hi,
>
> D. Hugh Redelmeier a écrit :
> [...]
> > Next: three ethernet interfaces seem to be detected.  I don't know if
> > that is right.  The computer has a wired and a wireless interface.  I
> > don't think that there is another (unless firewire counts).
> >     Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. 
> > (Backgrounding)
> >     Network device eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. 
> > (Backgrounding)
> >     Network device eth2 detected, DHCP broadcasting for 
> > IP.udevd-event[3635]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for 
> > '/sys/class/net/eth2/device/driver' failed
> > nothing more happens.
>
> It should be like:
> 1 - firewire interface
> 2 - Ethernet interface
> 3 - Wireless interface
>
> > Any recommendations for figuring out what has gone wrong?
>
> Some ralink wireless chipset(s) don't like DHCP request at boot time, 
> you should try to specify nodhcp cheatcode.
>
> So you may try some cheatcodes like:
>
> knoppix xmodule=vesa screen=1280x800 xvrefresh=60 nodhcp
>
> Shared memory should not block X start but could give you a small 
> resolution (ex: 800x600), try increase memory size for graphic chip in 
> your BIOS (1M to 8M or more if available).
>
> Hope it helps :)

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