Re: Netconfig Fail

[Peter <heisspf@skyinet.net>]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:20:53 -0400
chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net> wrote:

> Hi, Peter & Ray:
> 
>   Peter, if you add this line to /etc/rc.d/syslog.conf,
> 
> local0.*     /var/log/dhcpcd.log

Does not like the command: command not found.

If I separate local 0.* I get: "not valid identifier"

> 
>   then when you 'dhcpcd -d eth[01] it will put debug lines
>   into /var/log/dhcpcd.log  (See 'man dhcpcd')

Saw it, unfortunately it does not work.

> > Yes neither in Fedora nor in DSL had I to enter anything. In Fedora I just
> > had to activate eth1, eth0 was taken by the onboard LAN card.
> 
>   It seems to me that Fedora is finding your add-on PCI card and
> assigning it eth0, yet Slackware is assigning it eth1 !?
> 
>   I expected, since you disabled the on-board ether device,
> all distributions would only find a 'eth0'.
> 
>   So, if Slackware assigns it 'eth1' and your rc.inet1.conf assigns
> DHCP to eth0, it will not work.

Slackware assigns eth0, not eth1. It is Fedora which still reads both since info stored in a file, activates then eth1 correctly for the external LAN card.
 
>   Run dhcpcd from a console. If Slackware sees your PCI NIC as eth1;
> dhcpcd eth1

Running dhcpcd eth0 from the consoles does nothing. Just sits for a while and returns to command mode.

>   If that works, you can either edit rc.inet1.conf or add
> 'dhcpcd eth1' to rc.local.
> 
> HTH, Chuck


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