Clone install headaches

[Paul DiRezze]

At 03:11 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hmmm, that makes sense as you can't copy and paste from your isolated 
>machine :)
>
>Try the following then:
>
># stop network:
>service network stop

No problem


># make sure there is no DHCP client using/locking the interface
>ps uxaw | grep -i dhclient
>ps uxaw | grep -i eth
>ps uxaw | grep -i dhcp

None were running


># if you find some, run
>kill -9 PID (where PID is the process number you've got in the "ps" command)
>
># check again with "ps" if they're gone
>
># try to unload the module from kernel:
>rmmod sis900

No problem


># and try running the DHCP client manually:
>dhclient -d eth0

Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0pl2
.
.
.

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:e3:f1:28
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:e3:f1:28
Sending on Socket/Fallback
receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
send_packet: Network is Down
DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Network is Down
DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
send_packet: Network is Down
DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
send_packet: Network is Down
DHCPDISCOVERER on eth0 10 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
send_packet: Network is Down
No DHCPOFERS received
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping

and then it begins all over again


># open another terminal (Alt-F2), logon as root and check the interfaces:
>ifconfig -a
>
>And keep looking the output of the dhclient command. Send the output of 
>"ifconfig -a" and dhclient. If this doesn't work too, I would say it's a 
>problem with this module (sis900) and compile a newer kernel, but you'll 
>have to transfer it using some CD-R or floppy disks (sic)...
>
>BTW, what's your kernel version and CPU? "uname -a" it :)

domain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42.51 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 
GNU/Linux


>[]s,
>Salvi
>
>
>Paul DiRezze wrote:
>>Sorry,  my mistake.
>>The output from the command is alias eth0 sis900 and NOT 9000.  I made a 
>>typo while transcribing the contents of the file.
>>Sorry about that.
>>paul
>>At 02:04 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>Yep, that's it!!
>>>
>>>Paul: change it to "900" (and not nine thousand) and run "service 
>>>network restart".
>>>
>>>[]s,
>>>Salvi
>>>
>>>Sergey Kuznetsov wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 10, 2004 01:53 pm, Paul DiRezze wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>At 01:32 PM 10/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Please send the output of the following commands:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>cat /etc/modules.conf
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>alias eth0 sis9000
>>>>
>>>>     I think there is mistake, it must be:
>>>>         alias eth0 sis900
>>>
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