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drussell Junior Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:30 pm Post subject: No Ethernet after Upgrade |
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I followed your instructions to upgrade using 2.0.4 native CD.
On restart, my ethernet adapter is not connecting to my DHCP service.
I'm also somewhat bewildered by the large number of .new files in the /etc and subfolders.
Am I correct in assuming that the method of "taking care of .new files" is to look at both files in each case and apply changes in the .new to the other file?
Dave Russell
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gerasimos_h Site Admin
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Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Is your adapter properly recognized, what "ifconfig -a" says...
From which version did you upgrade?
The .new files need you attention in case something ain't working due to deprecated configuration mostly, no need to change anything if a service is working as it should...
You can diff files to see changes with
Code: | diff -Nupr /etc/somefile{,.new} |
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drussell Junior Member
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:08 am Post subject: |
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gerasimos_h wrote: | Is your adapter properly recognized,
what "ifconfig -a" says...
Apparently the adapter is not being recognized. It's an IBM EtherJet 10/100.
From which version did you upgrade?
1.6.6 Native
The .new files need you attention in case something ain't working due to deprecated configuration mostly, no need to change anything if a service is working as it should...
You can diff files to see changes with
Code: | diff -Nupr /etc/somefile{,.new} |
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gerasimos_h Site Admin
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Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:17 am Post subject: |
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Did you upgrade from CD image or from slapt-get?
If you upgrade from slapt-get you need to pay attention to many new packages between those two versions 1.6.6 -> 2.0.4...
Assuming tulip is our driver, see if driver is loaded for etherjet with
if not do
restart network with
Code: | /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 eth0_restart |
or even
Check network and ifconfig
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drussell Junior Member
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:53 am Post subject: |
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It appears that my problem is that my system is still trying to load kernel 3.2.20 even though it's no longer current.
On boot I get error messages from udev indicating that it cant find files
agpart.ko
i2c-core.ko and
mii.ko
in /lib/modules/3.2.20/drivers or /net
when I run lilo I get an error because my lilo.conf points to /etc/vmlinuz and I only have kernel folders with the version and options appended to the vmlinuz name.
lsmod generates no output since apparently no modules are loaded.
I booted off of the live CD to be sure that I was using lsmod correctly.
Trying to load tulip using modprobe didn't generated an error that a believe is due to the kernel differences.
Believe mii is the correct Ethernet driver based on the above error message and the lsmod listing after booting off of the live CD.
So is fixing this simply a matter of correcting the vmlinuz entry in lilo.conf? |
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gerasimos_h Site Admin
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:07 am Post subject: |
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Are new kernels installed and available in /boot/ and /lib/modules?
If not try reinstall kernel-generic-smp and kernel-firmware (just in case) and look at /etc/lilo.conf to see which kernels are to boot.
You can also check the symlink in boot
ls -l /boot/vmlinuz
and when you are done run "lilo"
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drussell Junior Member
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Well I really fouled it up this time.
Tried copying one of the newer kernel files to vmlinuz
On reboot, system reports that the kernel file overlaps stage 2 of lilo.
This system is a multi partition Win98 Win2000 machine
You had previously helped me set this up on 22 Sep 2012.
So I booted into Windows which still works.
Somehow, the new linux kernel files got onto my Windows 98 partition.
Booted up on a GParted disk and the only kernel files on my linux partition are the 3.2.20 version.
Not sure how things got to where they are but I'm going to take the time to back up key files on the Windows partitions before continuing.
At this point I think it's probably best to give up on the upgrade and re-install 2.0.4.
Before I do that, however, I'll boot up on the newest live CD to verify that my hardware is supported. |
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gerasimos_h Site Admin
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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Well certainly there is no need to reinstall, but to help you further more, I need to look into the system, even from livecd boot...
If you can give me SSH access (PM me or email) I can tell you what the big deal is...
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drussell Junior Member
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Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:15 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for your attempts to assist.
I've decided to stop wasting your time and mine and have installed SMS 2.0.4 from the Native CD to another hard disk that I could dedicate to the service.
Systems running remarkably well. Am writing this from Konquror on the SMS system.
Thanks again.
Dave Russell
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