Greetings all; Ha anything been done to forcedeth since wheezy? I have installed the LCNC version of stretch on two machines so far, an old Dell GX520 and this machine, which has an Asus M2n-sli deluxe mobo, which has nvidia ethernet ports using forcedeth.
The network was easy to make work after the install (the installer doesn't keep the settings its given, and which work during the install, but there is no way to get the networking going after the installs reboot on this machine. I have a hosts file based local network with about 10 names in the /etc/hosts file. hostname and domainname are properly set on both machines, /etc/resolv.conf reports: gene@vna:/etc$ cat resolv.conf search coyote.den nameserver 192.168.71.1 On both machines. To get the Dell to work, all I had to do was edit /etc/network/interfaces.d/setup and make it look like this: gene@vna:/etc/network/interfaces.d$ cat setup auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.71.7/24 gateway 192.168.71.1 And restart the networking. But on this machine the stretch install shows: gene@coyote:/etc$ cat /media/usb0/etc/network/interfaces.d/setup auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.71.3/24 gateway 192.168.71.1 And theres no way to even trace its failure because strace is not installed. The error message is very explicit, RTNETWORK, whatever the heck that is, says "file exists", followed by "failed." Do I file a bug against forcedeth? or whats next? Or if someone is using forcedeth and made it work, what did you do? I am at wits end. Thanks for reading everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
