upgrading inet1 through swaret

zeekx4 · 12-29-2004, 11:09 PM

I decided to try Slackware again, now that I have some more time, but installed Slack 10.0 and couldn't get my network set up. I tried 9.1 just to test things out, and it worked fine. I downloaded Swaret and upgarded everything I could, just to find that the network went down again afterwards.

I've got nothing weird. My card uses the de4x5 module (or tulip) which is loaded in every case. I receive the IP through DHCP. I'm not using a router or any other type of firewall, just simply the modem plugged into my network card. Any suggestions?

egag · 12-30-2004, 07:54 AM

did you run " #netconfig " to set it up ?
and does " #ifconfig " show an eth0 ?

egag

zeekx4 · 12-30-2004, 11:27 AM

yeah, everything was configured fine. I tried restarting, I tried making sure dhcp was enabled. I tried everything relating to setting up a network that I could think of (including manually configuring it).

I can't paste the readouts of any command here, because I'm in windows, but I know that ifconfig did show an eth0 but no IP address.

egag · 12-30-2004, 12:03 PM

if you just type " #dhcpcd "; is there any output ?

egag

zeekx4 · 12-30-2004, 09:37 PM

yeah, it says "MAC Adress: " and the address of eth0. My ISP has the right address, cause the connection will refresh in 9.1.

It sits on that for a while and then just goes back to the command prompt

slackMeUp · 12-30-2004, 10:21 PM

ok

start with this... as root.

Code:

#ifconfig eth0 down
#killall -9 dhcpcd
#ifconfig eth0 up
#dhcpcd eth0
#ifconfig

what is the final output of ifconfig?

zeekx4 · 01-02-2005, 01:47 AM

I'm still working on this

I realized that it's broadcasting a different MAC address than Windows or slack 9.1 does.

???

zeekx4 · 01-02-2005, 10:19 AM

every boot slackware would try to start a wireless network card. That always set me off ease since I don't have a wireless card, and never specified anywhere that I did. I thought that might have something to do with this.

Turns out I was right. I set rc.wireless and rc.wireless.conf unreadable and my MAC address went back to what it really was and the internet worked.

Crazyness... I didn't think the hardware address could be changed that easily. Anyway, the way I disabled the wireless is sort of bootleg, is there a more proper way to tell slack that I don't have a wireless card?

egag · 01-02-2005, 11:29 AM

well...the normal way is to make those scripts unexecutable ( chmod -x < file >. )

did you do that ?
or does making them unreadable also work....

( it's not a bootleg...

)

egag

zeekx4 · 01-02-2005, 08:48 PM

yeah I did that. I removed the read for root too just to be sure. Seems like a rather large flaw in slack to assume that everyone will have a wireless card.

thx for the responses guys