Re: Lost netconfig, how to get it back
From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 10/18/04
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:55:01 GMT
In article <1vIcd.11436$J16.430198@news20.bellglobal.com>,
Michel Rainville <rainvillem@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>I'm running SCO OpenServer 5.0.2c with Advanced Hardware
>Supplement 5.2.0c on an Acer Altos 931
>This server is running in a small retail store and until recently
>does not need to be connected to any lan.
>The Intel PRO/100 Lan adapter that is on the server was never
>configure/install.
>I recently, try to get this server on a lan by doing this:
>Using netconfig to add the software driver associated to
>the Intel adapter. To be sure to choose the good one from
>the provided list I extract the model numbre from the card
>(668081-004, Intel part number: PILA8460) I then choose to add
>Intel (R) PRO/100B PCI;
>Relink the kernel when ask, etc. etc.
>After a shutdown, I plug the lan cable from the server to a mini
>HUB (not a switch) that I normaly use to do testing.
>I observed that the HUB's green light associated to the port I
>use to plug my server was blinking fast and often, the HUB,s red
>collision light blinked also.
The collision lights are normal in a hub environment. That is
part of the design.
>I was able to ping the new interface (not the localhost but the
>newly added address) of the server locally from that server;
That is not good. Pingling localhost - 127.0.0.1 - will show you
that the software is installed correctly. If you can not ping
local host you have a problem and will need to find that first.
Rules of testing a network interface are:
1 - ping 127.0.0.1 - If OK got to 2.
2 - ping ip.of.the.local machine - if OK got to setp 3
3 - ping the IP of anyother locally connected machine or router.
Get 127.0.0.1 working and the rest should work.
>Unfortunatly, the server did not answer any ping from host pluged
>in the same HUB;
Not suprising if you can ping localhost.
....
>How can I get back net config ? (The OS CD are not available, but
>I think that the Cie that sell it is still in business)
I'd contact them. Uninstall what you have installed and start
over. If you have a backup of the system [always a good habit
of a full-system backup before adding hardware] then you could bo
back to that.
Bill
-- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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