getting grub to do noapic for me + dsl connection
hiya? how'z it going...?
well- got ubuntu up & installed with grub bootloader going- have some experience with slackware- but now that i'm in ubuntu land- everything's like weird man! LOL- anywho- 2 probs..... 1) grub needs to load the kernel with noapic- i'm used to LILO. so.. um.. how do i get grub to load it with noapic? otherwise i get kernel panic. 2) DSL (i've never been good at this stuff- LOL) anyways- it's a ethernet speedstream- the motherboard has the plug built in for it- it's a ecs nforce4m-a mobo & windows proclaims it's manufacturer to be nvidia. oh- and it's DHCP. any help would be greatly welcomed. thanks & dig that funky opening music when startx kicks in. lol. |
1. Just add noapic to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst. Make sure to do so again after kernel updates or edit GRUB in such a way that it takes care of that for you.
2. No internet right now? Does the lan controller get detected? If not, you may need to install a driver first. Have a look at System > Admin > Network. |
hey- thanks for the reply- got alot of stuff going here at once- lol... built a new pc- am trying to get 3 os to run on it (windows/slackware10/ubuntu..) man- lots of kettles on the fire!anyways- long story short- had the jumper set wrong on the old slackware CD... soo- wasn't reading- got the jumper right & to make a loong story short- got ubuntu to import settings from windows and slackware- it must of got the stuff from slack -because the internet is working :)
will try the grub thing when i get a chance- thanks again :) |
lol- at it again.... SIGH
here's the deal- i got everything else pretty much straighten out now- but now ubuntu won't connect- LOL... it got all the stuff from slack and slack connects (on slackware right now..) can't figure it out.. is it noapic maybe that's doing it? in slack all i have to do is go to etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf & put in a 'yes'... USE_DHCP[0]="yes" -and it's all good- i'm on right now- ubuntu doesn't have said file..... it does have resolv.conf and here he is- # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! search frontiernet.net nameserver 66.133.150.12 nameserver 67.50.135.146 frontier is right- not sure about the numbers- but i'm guessing there good too- i'm probably missing something obvious- where do i put in the 'yes' on ubuntu? LMAO... thanks again :) |
You can't go wrong if you use the same ip addresses you are using for Slackware. As for setting up DHCP:
http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-ne...ced-users.html |
still at it- LOL... thanks for the how-to and your patience (and help!) sigh.. here's ifconfig from slackware....
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:21:37:B9:5E inet addr:74.33.179.94 Bcast:74.33.191.255 Mask:255.255.240.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:21ff:fe37:b95e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:620 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:681 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:380045 (371.1 KiB) TX bytes:776028 (757.8 KiB) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe000 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:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1340 (1.3 KiB) TX bytes:1340 (1.3 KiB) there's a loopback thingie going called 'lo'... here's ubuntu (me playing with it has probably screwed it up even more...lol) ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:21:37:B9:5E UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:17900 (17.4 KiB) TX bytes:43650 (42.6 KiB) Interrupt:10 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3280 (3.2 KiB) TX bytes:3280 (3.2 KiB) it's different & i don't know how to fix it... lmao. but hey! i got compiz running in slack now- hehehe... |
okay- i think i'm getting closer.. lol- the only line that's currently different in my ifconfig file is....
inet addr:74.33.179.94 Bcast:74.33.191.255 Mask:255.255.240.0 -slack has this line- ubuntu doesn't- i'm assuming at this point -this might be the problem- thing i can't figure out is.. where do i enter this information into ubuntu? i can't figure that out- any help would be greatly welcomed- like i said- this internet stuff always gets me- lol. |
You wouldn't enter that kind of information considering you are using DHCP. The IP address in particular shouldn't be recorded because it is dynamic, i.e. it will be different each time you reboot. It's still a matter of getting DHCP to work in the first place. If you go to System > Network, do you see DHCP or are you using a fixed address? You may also need to use the /etc/init.d/networking restart command.
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ok.. system/network...
connection = dhcp general host name =monster dns 66.133.150.11 67.50.133.146 frontiernet.net hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 monster ::1 ip6-localhost lookback fe000 ip6 localnet ff000 ip6 mcast ff021 ip6 allnodes ff022 ip6 allrouters ff023 ip6 allhost exspastic@monster:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Password: * Reconfiguring network interfaces... There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 134993416 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:21:37:b9:5e Sending on LPF/eth0/00:19:21:37:b9:5e Sending on Socket/fallback eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 134993416 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Bind socket to interface: No such device Failed to bring up eth1. eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth2.pid with pid 134993416 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device eth2: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Bind socket to interface: No such device Failed to bring up eth2. ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.ath0.pid with pid 134993416 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ SIOCSIFADDR: No such device ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Bind socket to interface: No such device Failed to bring up ath0. wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 134993416 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ SIOCSIFADDR: No such device wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Bind socket to interface: No such device Failed to bring up wlan0. There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 134993416 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:21:37:b9:5e Sending on LPF/eth0/00:19:21:37:b9:5e Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER from 74.33.176.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPOFFER from 74.33.176.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPOFFER from 74.33.176.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPOFFER from 74.33.176.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPOFFER from 74.33.176.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 any ideas? |
Are you sure that your system is set to configure dhcp automatically?
Network > Connections > Wired > Properties. By the way, why have you got that many interfaces (eth0, eth1, eth2, ...)? Have you really got that many NICs? |
some more info....
exspastic@monster:~$ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface exspastic@monster:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 monster # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts exspastic@monster:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search frontiernet.net nameserver 66.133.150.12 nameserver 67.50.135.146 as far as the eth0 thing- i only have one connection- one of the stock files that came with ubuntu (i can't remember the name of it off hand..) already had eth0, eth1 etc.. already in it by default- suppose it can't hurt anything to stick them in there- at least- i didn't add them.... |
also- light on ethernet modem is blinking- like it's getting info- just no connect- permissions problem maybe? tried messing w/ permissions- think i'm good....
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Network > Connections > Wired > Properties
=automatic connection (dhcp) none of the other blanks are filled... the light blinks- it's a pretty light...lol- and if i didn't mention it before -we're dealing with a speedstream 5200 ethernet adsl modem. |
Did you use the livecd to install ? Have you checked whether that one works or not? If it does then I can't think of any reason - other than some misconfigured file - why it should stop functioning after being installed.
By the way, I really don't know why you have that many interfaces. I have one NIC and this is all that Ubuntu put in /etc/network/interfaces (and it's working fine): Quote:
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well- i did a reinstall off of a fresh live disk, burned from the .iso file i downloaded- still no internet- it imported all the stuff from slack- but no go. the iso has to be good -it worked before- my only guess (& hopefully not to confuse you..) but there's no windows on this computer & that was different when i first installed ubuntu- to make a reeally long story short- windows seems to want to be on the old ide drive (drive C according to bios..) but it throws a hissy fit and doesn't like when the 2 sata drives are plugged in- and causes the boot loader to crap out. sooooo- currently this is a windows free computer- and i'm planning on flashing the bios when i get a chance (...and get a new bios of course..lol) and the future )if any) of windows getting a spot on this computer is very slim- (i'd hardly use it & etc..) so- my guess only guess is= it got whatever it needed to go from windows?
-there's gotta be away around this... lol |
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