network configuration in slackintosh 12.1 on an iBook g4

thejar · 08-04-2008, 11:31 AM

I'm having problems setting up the ethernet network adapter on an ibook G4 running slackintosh 12.1. I was able to setup the xserver with kde.
I went to the settings> internet & network> network settings panel and tried to enable eth0 but i get a message stating

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There was an error changing the device´s state. You will have to do it manually.

this is the output of ifconfig -a

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0d:93:5f:c6:62
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:41 Base address:0x7000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:14632 (14.2 KiB)  TX bytes:14632 (14.2 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:24:8f:df:c0
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-11-24-8F-DF-C0-10-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00                               -00
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  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 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Any help would greatly be apprediated

hitest · 08-04-2008, 12:05 PM

I'm not familiar with slackintosh, but, did you try running this?

# netconfig

Alien Bob · 08-04-2008, 12:17 PM

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...with kde.
I went to the settings> internet & network> network settings panel and tried to enable eth0 but...

Please do not try to setup Slackware's networking using KDE's network manager. It will not work - worse, KDE will screw up Slackware's network scripts.

Learn how to edit

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

After all, this is still Slackware - you need to have a basic knowledge of the network configuration using Slackware's own scripts. Try not to rely on gui's only.

Eric

thejar · 08-05-2008, 03:28 AM

I did run

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netconfig

And only after running the gui´s network conf did I read your not suppose to do it that way in slackware and it´s ports, (I´m used to using Ubuntu which does allow you to configure the network using the gui). After which I reran netconfig but still nothing.

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

...Learn how to edit

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/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

...

What should I be looking for in

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/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

thanks again

sid77 · 08-19-2008, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

After all, this is still Slackware

How glad to hear that from you!

Looks like we're sleeping... I mean... doing our work well :-P