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Old 09-02-2001, 02:52 AM   #1
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Problems installing netscape 4.78 and realtek 8139


Hi everyone!

I Have a debian potato distro with 2.2 pre18 kernel. I'm trying to give acess to internet to my linux boot, through an realtek 8139 ethernet card. I had problems to make it work on my win98 boot because an IRQ sharing conflict between SB live! card and the ethernet card, but now they work just fine under windows, which seems to discard a hardware conflict.

Now im trying to install netscape, and it just seemed fine, but when as a user i tried to run netscape, didnt happened much. Then i went to /usr/local/netscape and tried ./netscape, and then i did that he said to me:


error in loading shared libraries: libstdc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory


so after a while i learned that netscape seems to have some issues on linux with libc (to me it seemed to be the problem) so i went to http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC/ but there are at least 20 files, how do you know the right one?

on the other side, to tackle the ethernet problem, i did what in most forums about this issue come as a solution:i did as root;

modprobe rtl8139 alias eth0

and when i did lsmod there it was(OK?) with an (unused) tag. also did the cat/proc/pci to check, and yes, also appeared there, using IRQ 11.

when on X-windows, from the menu i select

apps->net->lynx and it says that there is no connection, that is, although the device seems to be where it has to be, i still dont have a connection.

Some body can help this hopeless newbie?

thk SO MUCH in advance.
 
Old 09-02-2001, 07:22 AM   #2
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Right...

I'm not sure about the Netscape issue, however the directory you are looking in on that SunSITE seems to contain GCC - the GNU C compiler, not GlibC!!! Playing with your C libraries can break a lot of stuff - I'd look into getting a different version of Netscape instead...

As for the RTL8139 - it seems to be working if the module is loaded! The reason it is flagged as (unused) is that you have not brought the interface up with ifconfig yet... You want to find the relevant startup file (dunno where it is in Debian, I'm a Slackware user...) and put your modprobe line in there so that its gets loaded at boot time, then find Debian's network config tool (or find the relevant startup file again - look in somewhere like /etc/rc.????/???) and give your NIC an IP address, netmask and other IP necessaries and all should be good.

I take it your machine is on a LAN at the moment and thats how you're getting Internet access yeah? If this is the case then you'll want to make sure you have a valid IP address for your LAN and you may need proxy settings to be able to get out onto the web...

HTH

Jamie...
 
Old 09-02-2001, 11:29 PM   #3
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Ok, I followd your advice and focus just on the network problem.

So, tonight i did the ifconfig thing, so what i got seem really good:

>modprobe rtl8139 alias eth0
>/sbin/ifconfig

eth0 link encap:ethernet HWaddr:00:E0:7D:A7:8E:00 inet addr:10.161.158.114 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0

L0 (loopback stuff different in IP addresses)

then did this:
>netstat -r
at what i get:
dest gate genmask flag MSS Window irtt Iface
10.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

so i did this:
>/sbin/ifconfig eth0 10.161.158.114 broadcast 10.255.255.255 netmask 255.0.0.0
>/sbin/route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 eth0
>/sbin/route add default gw 10.161.158.114 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1

then i line added to the output of netstat -r:

default 10.161.158.114 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

but then, i pinged on the DNS of my ISP with ping -f so i could see some spaces between the dots, but none at all! neither the lynx founded connection.

What im doing wrong?

Thk again
 
Old 09-04-2001, 07:37 AM   #4
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network unreachable

when i ping to the DNS server it says the network is unreachable,
...
when i
>netstat -r
i get that the there is no gateway (i get an * under gateway as my prior reply asserted) so, what i have to do instead of

>sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} netmask ${NETMASK} 0.0.0.0 metric 1

i'm too lost???



 
  


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