[PLUG] Debian Network Problem

Fri Jun 13 07:58:02 UTC 2003

Always wanted to try gentoo.  Looks cool.  So I did, just now, and it,
too, fails to connect to the 'Net:  and it uses dhcpcd instead of
dhclient. Now I'm scritchin' my head again, because I've tried two
different NICs and every combination of options to dhcpcd.  Tried
sending the host name, the MAC address, everything I could find on
google.

I noticed the dhcpcd process IDs keep changing rapidly, until they
finally die out altogether.  I don't know if that's how it's supposed to
work, but then I checked the syslog (the "everything" log, in
gentooland), and I saw a whole lot of these messages (I'm guessing one
for every process):

[dhcpcd] dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor
[dhcpcd] dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Bad file descriptor

I don't suppose anyone can explain that, because google produced nothing
useful.  Maybe my motherboard is fscked, or maybe it's a memory problem.
At one point I was getting outa memory errors.  (Sure could use a
descriptive error message once in a while. . . .)  Mr. Chorman, do you
know how I can set up a swap partition after booting from the gentoo CD?
 Maybe that would help.

It seems Win98 is the only OS this machine is capable of running.

--Jason V. C.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:35:10 -0700
"Matt Chorman" <matt at legalizefreedom.org> wrote:

> If you are looking for an automatic dependancy resolution/package
> downloader/portage system, try gentoo.. I've installed it on
> everything from a p120 laptop to an athlon xp 2000 - and everything in
> between.. Granted, you do have to wait for everything to compile but
> it is well worth the wait. Most gentoo users are either ex-debian
> users or newbs (or so it seems from the forums.)
> 
> Bonus - you don't have to download a bunch of isos. In fact, you don't
> have to download ANY isos if you don't wish to.. You can install from
> an existing installation, as long as it has net access and chroot
> ability (you will just have to wait for bootstraping to finish which
> takes a few hours by itself, more or less depending on system speed.).
> 
> M
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jason Van Cleve" <jason at vancleve.com>
> To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Debian Network Problem
> 
> 
> > Thank you, Mr. Chorman.  These are good clews indeed, though they
> > seem to indicate my debian distro' is not well assembled.  I really
> > wanted to try debian because of the praises sung for apt-get. 
> > Little good that does me, though, if I can't get online!  (Where's
> > Karl Hegbloom when you need him?)  And this is one of the prominent
> > "net install" distros (the LordSutch.com image), so I would expect
> > it to make connecting a snap.  I don't get it.  I hate to download
> > all eight ISOs for the official release.
> >
> > --Jason
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:38:36 -0700
> > "Matt Chorman" <matt at legalizefreedom.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I wish I could remember where I saw this, but I know dhclient
> > > needs to be rebuilt for the current kernel version. I know I had
> > > this problem once and it was solved by recompiling/reinstalling.
> > >
> > > I googled a little too, and it seems like people who also have
> > > this problem and could not find a resolution switched over to
> > > dhcpcd and it worked..
> > >
> > > Hope this helps!
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Jason Van Cleve" <jason at vancleve.com>
> > > To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:22 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Debian Network Problem
> > >
> > >
> > > > On 12 Jun 2003 09:47:16 -0700
> > > > Derek Loree <drl at drloree.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Check the syslog, it will tell you if the dhcp-client was
> > > > > successful, or if there was an error.  If nothing is there,
> > > > > then your DHCP-client is not running.
> > > >
> > > > There is nothing in the syslog, but ps tells me that dhclient is
> > > > running.  Does anyone know anything about that client?  Like,
> > > > does it really suck, or something?  Its config file says that
> > > > little or no tweaking should be necessary.  (I tend to agree
> > > > with that statement, considering how preponderant the use of
> > > > DHCP is.)  There was a message somewhere explaining that dhcpd
> > > > is no longer recommended, but maybe that's poppycock, and I
> > > > should try to get it installed.
> > > >
> > > > By an arduous process I was able to get that etherconf package
> > > > installed, incidentally, which allowed me to reconfigure the
> > > > network via debconf. But it still doesn't work:  it tries for
> > > > maybe fourty seconds to get its IPs, then gives up without a
> > > > word indicating its failure.  I have a Win98 machine and a Linux
> > > > From Scratch box which have no trouble with DHCP, so I'm
> > > > wondering why this woody distro is being so mulish.
> > > >
> > > > Any clues?
> > > >
> > > > --Jason V. C.
> > > >
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