on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 03:08:28PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:19:06PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> | on Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:42:06PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
> [...]
> | > I haven't noticed any changes in networking, but that might be
> | > dependent on the hardware and what modules I already had configured
> | > to be loaded.
> |
> | the network error i get when i try to reconfigure my network
> | interfaces is below:
> |
> | Reconfiguring network interfaces:
>
> | cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory
>
> This message results from trying to stop dhclient while it isn't
> running. No harm done.
yeah, looked pretty innocuous ...
> | Unrecognized kernel version
>
> This I've never seen before.
:-P
> | done.
> |
> | i can tell that _something's_ not recognizing my kernel version, but
> | what is it? i probably just need to grab a newer package of
> | something, but what?
>
> What is your network card?
02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast
Etherlink] (rev 78)
> What driver did you use with the 2.4 kernel?
i put in the 3c59x module for it. the same one exists with the 2.6
kernel ... is this what you mean? never been good with hardware
configuration.
> What does 'ifconfig -a' report? (is eth0 listed there?)
with the 2.4 kernel, yes (clearly -- i'm writing from that :).
with the 2.6, also yes, but not configured:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:5F:A0:30
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xdc80
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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:840 (840.0 b) TX bytes:840 (840.0 b)
> What version of the dhcp-client package do you have installed?
2.0pl5-11
a friend of mine heard i was installing the 2.6 kernel, and he said
"bad idea." i asked why, and he mentioned bad driver support -- maybe
he means my ethernet card :-P
thanks again!
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