Help unable to get network working on the live cd.

ariel_ · Post by **ariel_** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:28 pm

Hello I have been trying to get this LiveCD to install on the system's hard drive for 3 days now.

First I am new to Mandrake. (Really strange in how it does things).
But I can put the cd in and run off there. But the network is not working. I finds the nic card and configures it to your default IP. I have gone in to system/configuration and changed the the network card to my local network settings.

1st error, But here is where I get stuck. It comes up with Mandatory package tmdns is missing.

2nd error Mandatory package zcip is missing.

It gives no options to do anything other then cancel or OK. If I pick ok it goes on to wanting me to restart the network. I do. Looks like it has the right number but the network does not work. I can't ping out of it's localhost.

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:42 pm

I am not clear from your post if you have already installed to hard drive, or you want to configure the network before installing. It is not required to have network access to install to the hard drive.

Whether running from the CD or from a hard drive installationyou can reconfigure the network using the Mandrake Control Center. In the Network and Internet tab you can use either the New Connection or the Manage Connections icon. You will only get the errors you mention if you use the New Connection wizard, and enter a name in the zeroconf hostname form. If your network is a zeroconf environment and you want this feature then you will need to manually configure first and install tmdns and zcip using the preconfigured ftp sources.

If you don't understand what a zeroconf environment is then you don't need to worry about this, just leave that line blank and you won't see those errors.

If still have trouble please include more detail about your network setup, and post the output from "ifconfig" and "route".

Best regards,

Ross

ariel_ · Post by **ariel_** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:44 pm

Main problem is that the network is not working. I have setup the network card to a real IP address, done it via the configure setup and even gone into the /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ section But still it's not working. It's not reporting an error and the system knows the card is there. It's a realtech card on the mother board. Which works great with CentOS which I had on there before.

Is there a firewall that gets installed by default. Should this not be on a Server instead of using xwindows?

Why is this so hard to just plain get working. I am using a small Shuttle system which has been working great for other things.

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:55 pm

Is there a firewall that gets installed by default.

No

Should this not be on a Server instead of using xwindows?

If you want to use it that way add "3" to the boot prompt. Or set runlevel 3 in /etc/inittab. I would suggest you get the networking functioning correctly before you do this.

Why is this so hard to just plain get working.

Unless you are willing to provide the details needed to troubleshoot this, I don't know how anyone can help you.

Ross

ariel_ · Post by **ariel_** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:23 pm

OK let me see where I can start to trouble shoot this. I have my network card set to IP address of 192.168.20.50 with the gateway set to 192.168.20.1. I have a linksys router and the 2 test camera's are also on 192.168.20.75 and 76. My Windows system can see the Cams. But my Mandrake system can't.

Since I can't connect to the network or even ping it. I don't know how to paste what ifconfig says.

My ifcfg-eth0 says.

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.20.50
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.20.0
BROADCAST=192.168.20.0
GATEWAY=192.168.20.1
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=YES

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:51 pm

just a couple of ideas.
Have you tested your patch cable you rusing or swapped it with the windows one

If your using the router as a dchp server have you tried using assign by dhcp on tyhe zm box?

Post by **cordel** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:25 pm

You need to set your BROADCAST=192.168.20.255
That should fix your problem.
Regards,
Cordel

ariel_ · Post by **ariel_** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:07 pm

cordel wrote:You need to set your BROADCAST=192.168.20.255
That should fix your problem.
Regards,
Cordel

Thank you for the suggestion I tried it. But It still did not work.

I tried a live CD from Mepis and the network card works just fine. I am think that the problem might be how Mandrake loads the drivers. It locks up every time I go via the madrake configurator to make changes on the network card.

Does the 1.19.5 LiveCD uses 2.4 kernel or 2.6. It just might be that the newer ones does not support my Shuttle box.

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:14 pm

The 1.19.5 CD uses a 2.6 Kernel, only very slightly different than the 1.21.0 CD.

You might check by booting the Mepis CD, which module it loads for your network card. If the ZMliveCD is not loading the correct module you may be able to rmmod the wrong one and ismod the correct one. If you find something along this line you would probably need to restart the network service after inserting the new mod.

Regards,

Ross