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Sunday, January 09, 2005

make problem solved

I was stupidly wondering why won't my /usr/bin/make won't work. Posted many emails in past 3-4 days and ultimately it took installation of make_3.80-9_hurd-i386.deb to make the 'make' utility work. The original make binary was just corrupt i guess.

No luck with Xfree86 installation dependencies, no progress with setting up network access.

One more useful thing I learnt yesterday. How to get your IP address, Gateway and Network mask. These three are needed to setup network with pfinet in HURD.

In linux use,

[root@localhost jayesh]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

[root@localhost jayesh]# /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:DB:DA:D6:42
inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:863 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:428907 (418.8 Kb) TX bytes:124307 (121.3 Kb)
Interrupt:11

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:5107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:348486 (340.3 Kb) TX bytes:348486 (340.3 Kb)

One irritating catch for less-informed like me is, ifconfig was found in /sbin and it wasn't in my PATH, so that command won't execute by default. So if you get 'No such file found' complaint from your shell when google says it should work, try looking in your /sbin, /usr/sbin directories, ones that are not in your PATH

Installed HURD console

Yesterday I installed console on my GNU/HURD setup. It's very cool. It lets me switch between number of terminals even in command line interface. Never seen this thing in command line. The installation was straighforward as pointed on http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/HurdConsole.

Later I tried to make XFree86 work on my system referring to http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/Xfree86. But no luck with that yet. I don't understand how to tackle the dependency problem while installing the required packages for XFree86, namely x-window-system-core and others listed.

Later on I also tried to setup network connection. But it is giving me errors like
/hurd/pfinet: eth0: (os/device) no such device

Will do some googling on these issues today.