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Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

Giving the output is not an easy task, as the computer I am installing on has a USB floppy (the Celvin is a kind of iMac for the PC world) and hopefully will work when I get Debian installed. As the network isn't working either, I can't send it as a text file to another box on my WAN/LAN. All I can do is run back and forth between rooms with a pen and a piece of paper :-( What I can tell you is that the "/sbin/ifconfig eth0" command response does not include an inet line as in your posting. It starts: 

Link encaps:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:67:06:4F:86
Broadcast Multicast MTU 1500 Metric:1
and then comes some stuff about packets sent, received and packet errors, all of which are 0. 

Does this help?

Cheers,

Brian

sean finney wrote:


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:30:26AM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
OK, I started the install process from the beginning again, remounted partitions, etc. Not only did I boot the install using "bf24", but I also chose the long install, to make sure that I was installing a 2.4 kernel from the Deb 3 rev. 1 full install CDs. I tried /sbin/ifconfig eth0 and got a lot of numbers in response that I don't really understand, but what seems to be more interesting, is when I did a "modprobe sis900", the response was "can't locate module sis900". I then looked under the kernel/net modules for the SiS900 driver and it is not listed .-( 

well looking at the kernel config for SIS900 in the bf24 kernel config
on debian's ftp server:

CONFIG_SIS900=y

which means it's hard-compiled into the kernel, and you don't need
to do a modprobe.  can you give us the output of ifconfig?  you're
most interested in the "inet addr" field".  for example:

oil[~]22:59:16$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:DC:32:B2 inet addr:130.58.82.95 Bcast:130.58.82.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:7692088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:91 frame:0
         TX packets:8289238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1962609489 (1871.6 Mb) TX bytes:341377353 (325.5 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80 
the important thing to clean is that addr exists.  if you have that line,
that means you should be ok.  try pinging another ip address, and if that
works, try pinging a hostname like google.com
According to a posting from Klaus Imgrund, there is a module for SiS900 on the "testing CD", but I am unsure what "testing CD" this is and how I can load the module into the kernel I am installing. 

or it could be that.  can you post us the output of dmesg (or better,
put it online somewhere and give us a link)?  if it really is recognized
by your kernel, there should be something mentioning it.


	sean
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