[Newlug] January Meeting

[Don Krause]

I will host a small NEWLUG get together on January 27th at the Infinity
Technology office - Located in the 43 Industrial park, GB. This meeting
will not consist of a presentation but rather allow us an opportunity to
get face to face and meet one another. We can discuss future meetings
and review the facility I have available. Meeting will start at 6PM and
go untill 8ish. Please email me if you can attend so I can estimate the
number of attendees.
If anyone has items of interest to show we do have a projector and I can
use my laptop. We also have internet access available - sorry we will be
meeting in a conference room, there is not a pc available for everyone
like a lab environment.

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 08:53, Don Seiler wrote:
> Add tulip to /etc/modules.autoload.
> 
> Edit /etc/conf.d/net and make sure your iface_eth0 line and gateway line
> are set up properly.  gateway is at the bottom of the file, people
> usually miss that one when first configuring.  If gateway isn't set
> right, that would explain not pinging stuff.
> 
> Don.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:45:23AM -0600, Mike Schommer wrote:
> > If anyone ever has a problem like this, try this solution that worked for me.
> > 
> > I had to the tulip network device driver as a module.  I also had to select the second option under the tulip module (slips my mine what it was called).  Then, after rebuilding the kernel and rebooting, I typed...
> > 
> > > modprobe tulip
> > 
> > To check to see if it was listed in the modules list, I typed lsmod and sure enough, it was there.
> > 
> > Then, I tried to ping www.yahoo.com and it still didn't work.  So I got lucky with the following command because I just guessed and it worked.  I typed the following at the command line...
> > 
> > > dhcpcd
> > 
> > This command (from what I understand) tells the system to use dhcp to get it's ip address, netmask, etc.  Then I tried to ping yahoo.com again and it worked.  Now the next problem was that when I rebooted, I lost my settings that I had just entered.  Turns out I wasn't telling the system to load the tulip module.  I forgot the command to do this (my instructions are away from me right now) but it is in the gentoo installation instructions under the kernel section.  I also had to change my net config so I used dhcp by default (this is also in the gentoo installation instructions under the network configuration section).  I want that pc to have a static IP Address, and use dhcp, but that'll be another weekend project to conquer.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Schommer <mschommer-schome1 at earthlink.net>
> > Sent: Jan 18, 2004 11:29 AM
> > To: newlug at newlug.org
> > Subject: [Newlug] kernel/eth0 problems (gentoo install)
> > 
> > I have a gentoo installation from stage 1 running, except for my ethernet card (lne100tx).  It has always used the tulip module, but when I select that in the kernel config, rebuild, and reboot, it still doesn't find it.  Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Also, I can't seem to get hotplug to 'emerge' - says it can't install pci-utils.  Is it a good idea to install hotplug?  Where can I find out what to build into the kernel and what to build as kernel modules?  I'm not too sure about doing anything with the kernel and would like to know a whole lot, but don't know where to look.  It looks like gentoo gives a barebones kernel config by default.   How does one find out what to enable for the kernel build?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
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Don Krause
MSNE, MCP, API, APS
A+, Network +, Project +
920-884-1523
Dkrause at itol.com