Installing Slackware 12.2 On An Old Dell Laptop - Part V
Posted 09-28-2009 at 02:54 PM by stuartd
Tags ethernet, networking, slackware, udev
It's been some time since I did any work on that old laptop. I've been away on holiday and then very busy.
So this evening I tried to get my head back into configuring eth0.
I've come up with a couple of ideas and tried them to no avail. Here goes -
I read here about pcmcia configuration:
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_pcmcia.htm
and after some more reading around created /etc/modprobe.d/xircom.conf as follows:
Rebooting did not get me eth0.
It seemed to me that I was on the right track but ifconfig doesn't show eth0 only the loopback interface.
Reading more around it I discovered that udev has a part to play in this.
At http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...-network.rules I found this file and so created it in /etc/udev/rules.d/
I tried running
but it didn't start eth0 or give me any error messages, and rebooting the computer did not get me eth0 either.
I'm at a loss at the moment. I've read the Slackware manuals and searched around for information on the net. I am sure I'm missing something.
:O(
So this evening I tried to get my head back into configuring eth0.
I've come up with a couple of ideas and tried them to no avail. Here goes -
I read here about pcmcia configuration:
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_pcmcia.htm
and after some more reading around created /etc/modprobe.d/xircom.conf as follows:
Code:
alias eth0 xirc2ps_cs options xirc2ps_cs if_port=4
It seemed to me that I was on the right track but ifconfig doesn't show eth0 only the loopback interface.
Reading more around it I discovered that udev has a part to play in this.
At http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...-network.rules I found this file and so created it in /etc/udev/rules.d/
Code:
# This file will be overwritten in next upgrade. Please put your # custom rules somewhere else (90-local.rules is a good idea) SUBSYSTEM=="net", NAME=="?*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="nethelper.sh $env{INTERFACE} start" SUBSYSTEM=="net", NAME=="?*", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="nethelper.sh $env{INTERFACE} stop"
Code:
/lib/udev/nethelper eth0 start
I'm at a loss at the moment. I've read the Slackware manuals and searched around for information on the net. I am sure I'm missing something.
:O(
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