[gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

[gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

[maxim wexler]

Hi all, 

on a new install w/2.6.15 kernel on an i586(K6-2) box
I get an ugly red message on boot:

"Cannot default to dhcp, no dhcp module loaded, no
config for eth0...net mount was not started"

I use dialup, the ethernet card, a 3com59x will be
used with a crossover cable and ftp to another box, an
AMD Sempron running 2.6.12.

I left the /etc/conf.d/(init.d?)net on both machines
UN-edited but only get the error message on the new
install on the i586.

How do get my new system to turn off this error? 

-mw



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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

[John Jolet]

On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:03 PM, maxim wexler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> on a new install w/2.6.15 kernel on an i586(K6-2) box
> I get an ugly red message on boot:
>
> "Cannot default to dhcp, no dhcp module loaded, no
> config for eth0...net mount was not started"
>
> I use dialup, the ethernet card, a 3com59x will be
> used with a crossover cable and ftp to another box, an
> AMD Sempron running 2.6.12.
>
> I left the /etc/conf.d/(init.d?)net on both machines
> UN-edited but only get the error message on the new
> install on the i586.
>
> How do get my new system to turn off this error?
>
> -mw

if you put something for eth0 in /etc/conf.d/net (look at the  
net.example and read the docs for syntaxes), it will stop trying to  
use dhcp.  if there's no config for an interface, it tries to use  
dhcp, but during your install, you failed to emerge dhcpcd.
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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:03:30 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:

> I left the /etc/conf.d/(init.d?)net on both machines
> UN-edited but only get the error message on the new
> install on the i586.

That file states that it will use DHCP unless you edit it to use static
addresses.


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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

[maxim wexler]

--- Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:03:30 -0800 (PST), maxim
> wexler wrote:
> 
> > I left the /etc/conf.d/(init.d?)net on both
> machines
> > UN-edited but only get the error message on the
> new
> > install on the i586.
> 
> That file states that it will use DHCP unless you
> edit it to use static
> addresses.
> 

OK, I edited the net file on *both* machines
identically, like so:

# For a static configuration, use something like this
# (They all do exactly the same thing btw)
config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2/24" )
config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" )

Now, the older box(K6) with the new install(2.6.15)
boots without error finds the NIC and sets up the
network. ifconfig reveals all is cool.

But the newer box(Sempron) with the
earlier(2.6.12)kernel finds the on-board NIC but
doesn't set up the net nor give any errors. ifconfig
shows only the loop device is operational. The correct
module, forcedeth, *is* installed

lspci:
<snip>
0000:00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK8S Ethernet
Controller (rev a2)
<snip>

dmesg:
<snip>
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet
driver. Version 0.35.
<snip>
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to
0000:00:05.0
<snip>

cat /usr/src/linux/.config| grep -i net:

# Networking support
CONFIG_NET=y
# Networking options
# CONFIG_NET_KEY is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set
# CONFIG_INET_AH is not set
# CONFIG_INET_ESP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL is not set
# CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set
# CONFIG_DECNET is not set
# CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set
# CONFIG_ECONET is not set
# CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set
# CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE is not set
# Network testing
# CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN is not set
# CONFIG_NETPOLL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER is not set
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
# ARCnet devices
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
# Tulip family network device support
# CONFIG_NET_TULIP is not set
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCNET32 is not set
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
# Ethernet (10000 Mbit)
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FC is not set


> 
> -- 
> Neil Bothwick
> 
> If all the world is a stage, where is the audience
> sitting?
> 


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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

[John Jolet]

> OK, I edited the net file on *both* machines
> identically, like so:
>
> # For a static configuration, use something like this
> # (They all do exactly the same thing btw)
> config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2/24" )
> config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
>
> Now, the older box(K6) with the new install(2.6.15)
> boots without error finds the NIC and sets up the
> network. ifconfig reveals all is cool.
>
> But the newer box(Sempron) with the
> earlier(2.6.12)kernel finds the on-board NIC but
> doesn't set up the net nor give any errors. ifconfig
> shows only the loop device is operational. The correct
> module, forcedeth, *is* installed

okay, so is there a symlink from /etc/init.d/net.lo to /etc/init.d/ 
net.eth0?  If there is, what happens when you issue "/etc/init.d/ 
net.eth0 start" as root?  if there's not, make it, then issue the  
command mentioned previously.  be nice to be tailing /var/log/ 
messages at the time you do that.
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Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:07:13 -0800 (PST)
maxim wexler wrote:

> --- Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:03:30 -0800 (PST), maxim
> > wexler wrote:
> > 
> > > I left the /etc/conf.d/(init.d?)net on both
> > machines
> > > UN-edited but only get the error message on the
> > new
> > > install on the i586.
> > 
> > That file states that it will use DHCP unless you
> > edit it to use static
> > addresses.
> > 
> 
> OK, I edited the net file on *both* machines
> identically, like so:
> 
> # For a static configuration, use something like this
> # (They all do exactly the same thing btw)
> config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2/24" )
> config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
> 
> Now, the older box(K6) with the new install(2.6.15)
> boots without error finds the NIC and sets up the
> network. ifconfig reveals all is cool.
> 
> But the newer box(Sempron) with the
> earlier(2.6.12)kernel finds the on-board NIC but
> doesn't set up the net nor give any errors. ifconfig
> shows only the loop device is operational. The correct
> module, forcedeth, *is* installed

have you put net.eth0 in the runlevel?

rc-update add net.eth0 default

[snip useful info]
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