I have been away from the list for a while and away from linux in
general, so I need to be refreshed on some technical issues. I bought
the $200.00 7.2 box set and everything worked except my cdplay for audio
cd's. I wanted to try Mandrake, so I downloaded 9.0 and installed it
(all of this is on a Sony VAIO GRX-570 laptop). I still couldn't play
audio cd's (not the issue here). I downloaded rh8.0, because I didn't
like some of the absence of features with the Mandrake release. I've
installed rh8.0 on the Sony VAIO, and for the first time, I can't boot
my system, unless I go into interactive and say 'n' to network and
pcmcia (pcmcia not the issue here, either). Incidentally, I'm having to
post from windows, since my network is not functioning in linux, and I'm
not liking it at all, since I never use windows, except in emergencies.
Now to the point.
As I recall, I did not enable network start at boot during the install.
I selected dhcp, and thought that I could start the network after boot,
because I hate waiting for the network timeout when I'm not ethenet
connected. When I boot and don't interactively bypass network startup,
my system hangs on starting loopback. It just sits there indefinitely.
If I say 'n' to network startup and later bypass pcmcia (not what I'm
interested in here), my system boots fine and I start kde (no problem
except sound). I check my hardware using control center and it shows my
intel etherexpress pro 100 etherenet card with the correct module
installed and /dev/eth as the device.
I don't know much about /dev, but there is no eth* device there. Other
tests I ran showed that my system doesn't have eth(anything). dmesg
doesn't show any ethernet devices configured(but then again, I bypassed
the network startup). I have ifcfg-etho and ifcfg-lo in my
network-scripts directory. I don't run devfs. Should there be an
eth0 in /dev? It's not there. locate eth0 yields nothing.
Forgive my ignorance, here. I will send more info, once I know what you
need.
Confused without grace,
Glen
--
redhat-list mailing list
unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
