Hi,
I just shot myself in the foot, when trying to reach for the
stars...
I was trying out the 2.2.5 kernel on my Slink install. Before I
saw the page on running 2.2 by Anthony Towns (did I get the name right?),
I had noticed that when bring up my 2.2 kernel, my route using lo was not
coming up. And I couldnt bring it up manually either. The messages that I
was getting indicated some kind of syntax error - which was strange, since
I was booting off of the same rootdisk used by my 2.0.36 Slink install.
Anyway, when I discovered Anthony's page, I went and downloaded
the new netbase and installed it. This of course required the new libc6
(otherwise it wouldnt configure), and which required apt version 0.10 (and
which I couldnt find - what I found was apt version 0.3x [x = something
or the other]). Anyway, everything is installed, and now my 2.2 kernel
still doesnt produce a route for lo, but worse (oh horrors!) my 2.0.36
kernel now produces the following 'ifconfig' output :
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:15:E3:9E
unix addr: Bcast: Mask:
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1200
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
unspec addr:00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-3B-01-40-02-00
Bcast:00-00-7F-FF-FF-FF-00-00-00-00-00-3B-01-40-02-00
Mask:00-00-FF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-3B-01-40-00-00
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
This is what a working 'ifconfig' setup looks like (on my Redhat
system - same machine) :
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:15:E3:9E
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1200
Save me!
Jor-el
