[coLinux-users] networking etc.

[Douglas F. <dpf...@lb...>]

Hi Everyone,

I have an AMD Athlon system and am trying to get
colinux cooperating with winXP with the networking.
At the moment I'm trying to get the gentoo image
working since that's what I have on my laptop.

I've tried every variation of the different suggestions
to get networking going that I can. The computer is
on a LAN & I am trying to share the winXP's internet
connection. I am following the directions in the colinux
networking section of the wiki, for shared internet
connections. The nework link in my xml file reads:
    <network index="0" type="tap" name="TAP" />

and I have changed /etc/resolv.conf to use the
nameservers here & /etc/conf.d/net to reflect the settings
given in the wiki. Networking fails to start & when I
try to restart it I get a message:

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
* Failed to bring eth0 up

Can anyone enlighten me as to what this means? I've
detached the gentoo terminal from the cmd line terminal
using -t fltk & looking at the output there I cannot see
any errors that should matter (It does complain about
a "mismatched close tag under parent"  -- even using
the default file-- but I assume that is not a critical error).
Is there another log/debug output available (another flag?),
esp. one that would give the status of all the drivers &
connections involved, before & after the gentoo system
has booted? I've tried both the beta & vers. 3.0 of the
libpcap library to no avail.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Douglas.