Help with ethernet setup on 450 G4.

Help with ethernet setup on 450 G4.

[Richard Young]

Hi,

    I'm new to this whole Linux thing and I'm trying to find the
quickest way
to the information I need to get my networking working on a Sawtooth G4,
450
with the built in 10/100 base-t.

I did the installation from getting FTP files and not from CD so I may
be missing
something. I am using Ben H's kernel 2.2.15.pre3.  Most everything seems
to be
working (after some painful updates, not knowing which RPM's hold which
files
such as libraries) except for the ethernet stuff.
I don't have much of an idea how the ethernet stuff is handled under
Linux.
I get complaints about eth2 not being a device and the like.  Is there a
conf file
somewhere that specifies something more about the eth2 device?
I tried using linuxconf to set it up but the error log also showed
similar problems
when trying to run those network scripts.
Is the eth2 support compiled into the kernel or is it supposed to be a
module or
something like that? At this point, I'm lost!


Thanks anyone,

Rich Young

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Re: Help with ethernet setup on 450 G4.

[Nelson Abramson]

Richard Young wrote:

> I did the installation from getting FTP files and not from CD so I may
> be missing
>

Okay, if you got the ftp installation working, then there shouldn't be a
problem...

> something. I am using Ben H's kernel 2.2.15.pre3.  Most everything seems
> to be
>

Okay, I have gmac ethernet working w/ BenH's 2.2.15pre3 on a sawtooth...

> working (after some painful updates, not knowing which RPM's hold which
> files
> such as libraries) except for the ethernet stuff.
>

Generally the files correspond...ie if you need libxpm.so.3, it's probably
in the libxpm rpm, or the libxmp-devel rpm or something along those
lines....

> I don't have much of an idea how the ethernet stuff is handled under
> Linux.

Well, most likely transparently to you...that's the ideal anyways :-)

> I get complaints about eth2 not being a device and the like.  Is there a
> conf file
> somewhere that specifies something more about the eth2 device?
> I tried using linuxconf to set it up but the error log also showed
> similar problems
> when trying to run those network scripts.
>

eth2?  Why are you running off of eth2?  Built in ethernet is eth0.  Do you
have a special ethernet card?  Otherwise, you use eth0...

> Is the eth2 support compiled into the kernel or is it supposed to be a
> module or
> something like that? At this point, I'm lost!

It's not that eth2 is a module, it's a device.  eth refers to your network
driver.  Like hdXY refers to partition Y on ide drive X, ethX refers to the
X interface, built in is (AFAIK) generally eth0.

I would go into linuxconf, and make sure that your basic ethernet settings
are for eth0, NOT eth2...

HTH
--Nelson Abramson

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