Re: wheeee! installed. no network. now what? :)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:48:54PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>     i don't have an eepro100 card _per se_, btw, it's built-in into
>     the sony portable (pcg-z600hek).
> 
> Mine is an built-in card too; a Compaq Armada M700.
> 
>    hm.  i used google to search, last month, for some of this stuff.
>    if my memory serves correctly, it was on gnu.org.
> 
> You could also have followed the URL I gave you in the first reply.
> If I didn't provide an URL, then I apologize.  But here it is again:
> 
> http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html
> 
> It can be accesed from hurd.gnu.org too.
> 
>     okay, that i found and tried last night.
> 
> And the exact command line was?
 
 the same as your example, and those listed in the guides.

 which iirc was:

 settrans /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 -a 192....


>     so i took a look in /servers/socket and found a symbolic link inet
>     already existed (???)
> 
> Yes, thats the way it is supposed to be.  /servers/socket/inet points
> to /servers/socket/2.  Can you also give the output of "showtrans
> /servers/socket/2"?  

 ah ha!  i expected that kind of command to exist, will run it later
 tonight.

> And maybe try removing any translators attached
> with "settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2" before setting an translator
> there.  You can look at what the options means with --help as the
> single option to settrans, or showtrans.

 fantastic.

 thanks.

 will do.

 have to reboot etc.

 l.