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Hi,

I've tried to upgrade my kernel from 1.1.59 to 1.3.20 so that I can start
plaing with Appletalk support. The kernel seems to come OK but when
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 tries to iconfig and route it gets some SIGIOADDR or
something not being available. Does this mean I need to recompile ifconfig
and route? They are
probably left from Slackware 2.1 or something. If this IOCTL has changed
when did this happen?

Martin

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: Hi,

: I've tried to upgrade my kernel from 1.1.59 to 1.3.20 so that I can start
: plaing with Appletalk support. The kernel seems to come OK but when
: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 tries to iconfig and route it gets some SIGIOADDR or
: something not being available. Does this mean I need to recompile ifconfig
: and route? They are
: probably left from Slackware 2.1 or something. If this IOCTL has changed
: when did this happen?

Read the README file in linux/net.  You need to upgrade you networking software.

I've found the net-tools-1.20 stuff which probably does what I want, however
route.c barfs on symbols like RTF_UP, etc. Which header are these supposed
to be in? (They don't appear to be in kernel 1.3.20 )

route.c
<snip>
                if (iflags & RTF_UP)
                        strcat(flags, "U");
                if (iflags & RTF_GATEWAY)
                        strcat(flags, "G");
                if (iflags & RTF_HOST)
                        strcat(flags, "H");
                if (iflags & RTF_REINSTATE)
                        strcat(flags, "R");
                if (iflags & RTF_DYNAMIC)
                        strcat(flags, "D");
                if (iflags & RTF_MODIFIED)
                        strcat(flags, "M");

<snip>

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All:

I have had the exact same problem as mentioned here.  My 1.2.x kernel
worked fine with my network software/driver combinations.  When I
upgraded (:-)) to 1.3.x, ifconfig says:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again

I chalked it up to having a completely untested new system (hardware
and all - I upgraded to a Pentium P100 w/PCI bus + Tulip ethernet) but
now you guys are saying its the system software and not the kernel.  I've
downloaded everything I thought was the problem, but no luck.  Now I'll
go and get the newer NetTools and try that.  You can get them from:

ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Networking/PROGRAMS/NetTools

I'll tell you if I have any luck.

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All:

Don Becker (The God of Ethernet) was right on the money when he said my
SIOCSIFFLAGS problem was an IRQ problem.  Going back in and checking my
PCI BIOS, I discovered the only IRQ available to the PCI bus was IRQ 9,
so the SCSI and Ethernet cards decided to share IRQ 9.  I noticed it
the bazillion times I booted, but just didn't think about it.  Once I
went in and reconfigured the available IRQs in the BIOS, everything worked
fine.

Just one more thing put on my resume...

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software.

Thanks Mike, In my second post I did indicate that I found the NetTools stuff.
However it looks as if it doesn't include all the includes (like <linux/route.h>

Anyway I'm getting closer ;-)

Martin

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