Followup on this:
I am so dumb. This is on the level of "is your computer plugged in?"
How was I deciding networking was not working? By pinging a site I know. By
domain name.
When I tried it just before by IP address instead it worked!
In other words, networking worked, but no name server was set. I added the
name server IP addresses to /etc/resolv.conf and all was fine!
But:
(1) Why wasn't the network screen presented during installation?
(2) Why wasn't resolv.conf set?
Still bugs in the Redhat installer?
Anyway, thanks for your help and sorry to bother you...
doug
----previously sent message I am following up on-----
Thanks for your reply:
>
> Firstly - what I would do is check your /var/log/dmesg and makes sure your
> USB host adapter is being detected.
Yes - there are lines in there indicating that the pegasus driver was
detected and associated with eth0.
> If not that is your first obstacle.
> Secondly - remove and insert the adapter while watching /var/log/messages -
> check whether the Pegasus adapter is being detected - obstacle #2.
When I do this, the following is reported in /var/log/messages:
* USB disconnect on device 3
* modProbe: can't location module block-major-2
* last message repeated 3 times
* USB new device connect on bus1/2/1, assigned device number 4
* pegasus.c: eth0: MELCO/BUFFALO LUA-TX
So - it does, in fact, seem to be detected when unlpugging and replugging
in.
> Thirdly - run netconfig to set the thing up.
OK. I ran this to choose DHCP settings, like other computers on the same
LAN. (Aside: Why can't the "Network Configuration" app in Gnome be used for
this?)
One note: If I go back and run netconfig again, it doesn't seem to remember
the previous selection of "DHCP" and I have to select that again. Is that
normal? Is there a place to look to see what the current settings are?
And what happened to "linuxconf"? :-)
> Fourthly - run ntsysv and enable networking.
I ran that, but everything (like "network") seemed to have already been
selected. I did "ok" on that anyway, just in case.
After doing all this, the box was still not connected to the
network/Internet though...
Is there supposed to some other step when changes like this are make to
"kickstart all the changes" or something like that?
I tried restarting the machine too, but that didn't help.
>
> Please note that I never needed the 'alias eth0 pegasus' line you describe -
> it just worked out of the box. I don't think it harms your situation, but
> for testing purposes you may want to remove it for now.
I removed those, as you suggested, before starting the tests...
Any ideas of what I might try next?
Thanks - and I appreciate your assistance.
Doug Lerner, Tokyo
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