RE: getting slackware 12 online

 I'm not gonna tell anyone =)

--eddie

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of
Clay Scott
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:03 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: getting slackware 12 online

no matter what i did it kept saying the cable was unplugged. i did a little
thinking that if it wasn't the least obvious solution involving the system
bring wrong it had to be the most obvious and it was right. so i went around
to the back of my machine, unplugged the cable from my 3Com NIC, plugged it
into the first gigabit ethernet port on my motherboard and *FIXED*!

i'm an ass. there's nothing more to see here. move along...

~clay

---- Original Message -----
From: Clay Scott <rudeboy@gci.net>
Date: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:44 pm
Subject: getting slackware 12 online
To: aklug@aklug.org

> i've been using slack with essentially the same hardware for years and
> it's always worked like a champ. now with the move to sysfs/udev on
> slack 12 i've run into a really odd problem from a stock install that,
> for the life of me, i can't figure out. after install and reboot it
> gets to the part where it tries to poll my isp's dhcp server
> (clearwire) and gave an odd error.
>
> Polling for DHCP server on interface eth0:
> No carrier detected on eth0. Reducing DHCP timeout to 10 seconds.
>
> after which nothing happened. i'm new to sysfs/udev so i did some
> research and the 'no carrier' part means that it thinks the cat5 to my
> ethernet card is unplugged which i assure you it isn't. i wondered why
> it would think that so i did a little more digging and found that it
> reads the file /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier to determine the status.
> thing is there's nothing in the file and it actually seems to be
> corrupt.
>
> # file carrier
> carrier: ERROR: cannot read `carrier' (Invalid argument)
>
> but i can read all of the other net/eth0/ files:
>
> # file mtu
> mtu: ASCII text
> # file broadcast
> broadcast: ASCII text
>
> opening it with vim also gives ominous errors:
>
> "/sys/class/net/eth0/carrier" [readonly][READ ERRORS] 0L, 0C
>
> so i'm at a complete loss now. i can't figure out why carrier would be
> corrupt and empty and why it won't get a dhcp ip lease considering it
> still waits 10 seconds just in case the problem is with sysfs/udev and
> the cable actually is plugged in. the card is a 3Com PCI 3c905B
> Cyclone 100baseTx using the 3c59x driver that i've been using for
> years.
>
> ~clay
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Received on Thu Jul 19 15:30:26 2007