Re: [Nolug] Vector Linux (slackware) losing network config

Please disregard previous message. I decided to play around with it
and edited /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1. Finally got it to work. I don't know
why it had quit, though.....
Thanks,
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Prentice <prentice@instruction.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:49 PM
Subject: [Nolug] Vector Linux (slackware) losing network config

>Alex or anybody familiar with slackware,
> OK, VectorLinux SOHO (slackware) seemed at first to run fine on
>this laptop. During installation it asked me what IP address and DNS
>server to use, and networking worked fine. However, I must have done
>something later when I was deleting unused packages to save drive
>space, because now it won't talk to the network. It still boots up OK
>and finds all the PCMCIA drivers (it's using a Xircom credit card
>ethernet PCMCIA adapter).
>If I unplug and replug the card it says
>cardmgr[63]: executing; 'modprobe xirc2ps_cs'
>cardmgr[63]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cs'
>cardmgr[63]: executing:'./network start eth0'
>
>However, the light on the dongle won't come on and it says "network
>not available" when I ping anything. I tried vasm and netconfig to
>reload all the correct addresses, but it doesn't seem to want to save
>them anywhere.
>The adapter will finally start up when I tell it
>ifconfig eth0 up 10.0.0.102
>and then I can ping specific addresses in my house network, but I
>can't ping anything outside. Nor can I figure out where to put the
DNS
>address. Since this uses pcmcia, it's not in /etc/sysconfig/network,
>but instead stuff runs from /etc/pcmcia. I tried editing
>/etc/pcmcia/network.opts to no avail.
> Any ideas how I might have messed it up, and how to make it get
on
>the network again?
>Thanks,
>Dave Prentice
>prentice@instruction.com
>
>
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