Re: New to Slackware 9.1 and Laptops
From: Razzel (logicon_at_zipcon.com)
Date: 01/14/05
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:07:34 GMT
rh10023@hotmail.com wrote:
>I am really coming to the end of ideas. I have scoured the Internet to
>try to find a solution but I am not sure what I can do now.
>
>Laptop is: Dell Lattitude CP
>PCMCIA Card is: Linksys PCM100H1 - Phoneline 10/100 Network card
>
>I know this card works with this machine because I have been using it
>with Fedora Core 2. I want to move to Slackware because it does not
>seem to be as resource heavy.
>
>Well I am having difficulties getting this card to talk to the network.
>The adapter lights are on, indicating that the link is there. When I
>see the boot messages go by, I do see an unsupported card message, but
>then the next message identifies the card correctly.
>
>But I see a message roll by: "SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable"
>
>I try doing a ifconfig eth0 and I get the following message:
>
>"eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found."
>
>I think cardmgr is starting up before Slackware starts network
>services. But I am unsure. In Fedora 2, I had to re-order the rc3.d
>files to make sure that card services were started before network
>services were started up. I am unsure how to control the starting of
>daemons in Slackware. Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
>
>
1) Try using just ifconfig not ifconfig eth0 -- if eth0 isn't there then
that is the problem (so see 2 nd 4 below)
2) Look into /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTO for documentation on hardware
3) cd /var/log when there scan the bottom of messages and/or run dmesg
to see what happens during bootup
4) if u are using a default kernel like "boot" it may not have network
features so you can either reinstall (ugh!) or UGH learn to build your
own kernel (see 2 above)
Slackware is great compared to RH et. al. but it requires knowledge a
forehand. Once you get to know where the different documentation stuff
resides it gets a lot simpler.
RAZ
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