Re: Netconfig Fail

Peter
2005-10-08T15:22:02Z

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