Re: [Linux-decnet-user] smth strange with decnet.o

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:23:40PM +0400, re...@ma... wrote:
> I install up new Linux PC, and try to migrate all my soft from old Linux
> one, where I have running dnprogs-2.19 on 2.4.18 kernel, got directly
> from kernel.org. I spent some time when was tryign to start decnet on
> the old PC, but after applying magic with "echo 1.5 >
> /proc/sys/decnet/node_address and so on" all work perfectly up to date.
> And now I try to do the same with my new PC on 2.4.18-5asp kernel
> (decnet sources from original 2.4.18).
> "modprobe decnet" give no errors, but then happens something strange - ifconfig
> dies and says: 
> ":error fetching interface information: Device not found"!
> eth0 (IP, no decnet) still alive and works, about eth1 (decnet aims to, with
> MACADDR=... in ifcfg-eth1 ) I know nothing.
> 
> init.d/network restart doing all and says OK, but ifconfig still fails.
> 
> What do I have to do? Help, please.

I hate to state the obvious but is the module for eth1 loaded (or compiled into
the kernel) ? Can you see it initialised at boot time? Have a look in
/proc/net/dev to see if exists there.


patrick