No Network blues

Mike Wisniewski mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:42:10 -0600


Romeyn Prescott wrote:

> I recently upgraded to MOL 0.9.65.  After playing with OS X and having 
> it de-bless my boot volume and spending two solid days trying to get 
> the box booting Linux again, I'm back to trying to get OS 9 working.
>
> OS 9 BOOTS, but I have absolutely NO NETWORKING.  In fact, if I 
> attempt to open the AppleTalk Control Panel, I get the message:
>
> "There are no Network Ports available for AppleTalk."
>
> TCP/IP won't open because AppleTalk isn't available.  (??!!!)
>
>
> I observed that the new MOL creates a /etc/mol directory in which 
> there are various scripts.  Assuming that when booting OS 9 the 
> /etc/mol/molrc.macos script is to be used, I created a symlink in 
> /etc/mol/molrc.macos --> /etc/molrc, which was the file that 
> previously worked wonderfully for me.
>
> In that file I declare networking thus:
>
> netdev:  eth0  -sheep
>
> What do I need to change to get networkking working again?
>
> TIA,
> ...ROMeyn

Have you checked to make sure the Linux has started the in interface 
eth0 using ifconfig commend?