[gobolinux-users] Network nor present after reboot

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/2/26, pp_o2 <pp_o2 at o2.pl>:
> On Monday February 26, 2007 09:15, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> > This is one of the errors fixed by the new DHCP task. You can
> > temporarily fix that by copying the DHCPNetworkInterface task from the
> > following tarball inside /System/Links/Tasks (overwrite the existing
> > file there):
> > http://gobolinux.org/recipe-store/DHCPCD--2.0.0-r3--recipe.tar.bz2
> >
> > Then, re-create the removed file and everything should be fine again:
> > mknod /dev/null c 1 3
> >
> Hi,
>
> 1) BTW. Why Tasks are NOT symlinked via Current subdirectory? Apart from what
> I said the scripts use two different ways to do so. Vide @GoboHide and
> @LoadModules for example. Such inconsistency would lead to more problems and
> additional works in future development of GboLinux. In theory at least .
>
I really can't follow you here. SymlinkProgram (which is runned both
by Compile, if that's used, and InstallPackage, when that's used)
should update the links for the tasks and make them point to the same
file as in the Current directory.

> 2) First of all I've done I was asked by Mr Jonas Karlsson to recompile
> dhcpcd. So now before installation I compared your version from your recipe.
> They are bit by bit the same. I had to remove /dev/null only and reinstalled
> it again. To no avail.
>
Yes, it should be the same. While recompiling the task script  is
updated as well, so you should already have the updated Task, which
you got when recompiling.

You shouldn't have to delete /dev/null, but the old DHCP task did
remove it so if it alrady was deleted you can recreate it with the
command Lucas gave.

> > >
> > > root at tytan /System/Links/Tasks]Network Start DHCP
> > > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> >
> > This is telling you that the driver for your network card is not
> > loaded. Which card do you have? Ensure that 'lsmod' shows the correct
> > driver for it. There's some cases where a similar (but wrong) driver
> > is loaded. If that's your case, you'll need to either blacklist the
> > wrong driver or to manually add the correct one to the
> > userDefinedModules array at /System/Settings/BootOptions.
>
> 3) I also checked the kernel modules. There were two of them - 8139too and
> 8139cp. As I've remembered the "too" was the correct one (from other Linux
> distros) I've blacklisted "cp" version. Nothing changed. I got the same behavior > and the same messaages. Of course network link gets up after setting it
> manually in known way.
>
Blacklisting a module only has effect if you reboot your machine.
Instead of rebooting you could unload the wrong module, 'rmmod
8139cp', and then make sure that the dorrect one is loaded, 'lsmod'.
Then run 'StartTask Network' again.
If you know that you never will use the 8139cp module you can
phusically remove the module from your system. Just delete
/System/Kernel/Modules/Current/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.ko


> I must add here that the /System/Variable/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info contains
> correct data.
>
> 4) IMHO the number of network files in GoboLinux is too big. Or __decidedly__
> they should be kept in one directory. Perhaps you should use the famous
> symlinks so pervasive in GoboLinux as a last resort. I can read/write bash
> files but jumping from one to another in two or three terminal windows (with
> mc to double the windows number) is tiresome.
>
There are only one network file that should be needing user editing
and that's /System/Settings/NetworkOptions. The Task files should not
be edited. If they're not working a bug report should be filed.

> Regards,
> Przemysław Pawełczyk
>
> P.S.
> I beg your pardon writting to you here but my direct e-mails from my "proper"
> address to gobolinux-users and other main developers are being returned.
> Probably my address is blacklisted somewhere in the Net.
>
> Shame to say but our Polish biggest Internet provider namly TPNET of Polish
> Telecommunication (TPNET within Telekomunikacja Polska SA) to which my
> estate
> house network is connected to is one of the biggest spamers in the world:
> https://nssg.trendmicro.com/nrs/reports/rank.php?page=1
>
> Would some of you be kind to make my Internet address to pass through your
> firewall/spam barriers? I'd be very much obliged. Thanks in advance.
>
> Now I have to open WWW e-mail (I opend it only to have the possibility to write > to GoboLinux mailing list!), copy my texts there, etc. True hell I swear.
>
Are you sure that you are subscribed to the mailing lists with your
"proper" address? The list are set so only subscribers can post to
them.

-- 
/Jonas