Re: Netconfig Fail

chuck gelm
2005-10-07T11:20:53Z

Hi, Peter & Ray:

Peter, if you add this line to /etc/rc.d/syslog.conf,

local0.* /var/log/dhcpcd.log

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

> 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.

Run dhcpcd from a console. If Slackware sees your PCI NIC as eth1;
dhcpcd eth1

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

HTH, Chuck