ping: bad address

Hi everyone,

I can not ping domain names. however I can on ip addresses. My network
configuration is shown below. Should I start any daemon or what else I have
to do?

Sincerely,

# ping gmail.com
ping: bad address 'gmail.com'

# ping 173.194.70.17(gmail.com's ip address)
PING 173.194.70.17 (173.194.70.17): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 173.194.70.17: seq=0 ttl=48 time=63.309 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.70.17: seq=1 ttl=48 time=59.150 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.70.17: seq=2 ttl=48 time=54.103 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.70.17: seq=3 ttl=48 time=57.030 ms

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:90:90:90:90:90
          inet addr:10.0.2.247  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:224196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:15864126 (15.1 MiB)  TX bytes:1950 (1.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:51 Base address:0x4300

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
10.0.0.0        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
eth0
default         10.0.0.225      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
eth0

# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 10.0.0.225

# cat /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on

# cat /etc/hosts
localhost       127.0.0.1

# cat /etc/eth0-setting
IP=192.168.1.230
Mask=255.255.255.0
Gateway=192.168.1.1
DNS=192.168.1.1
MAC=08:90:90:90:90:90

# cat /etc/init.d/ifconfig-eth0
#!/bin/sh

echo -n Try to bring eth0 interface up......>/dev/ttySAC0

if [ -f /etc/eth0-setting ] ; then
        source /etc/eth0-setting

        if grep -q "^/dev/root / nfs " /etc/mtab ; then
                echo -n NFS root ... > /dev/ttySAC0
        else
                ifconfig eth0 down
                ifconfig eth0 hw ether $MAC
                ifconfig eth0 $IP netmask $Mask up
                route add default gw $Gateway
        fi

        echo nameserver $DNS > /etc/resolv.conf
else

        if grep -q "^/dev/root / nfs " /etc/mtab ; then
                echo -n NFS root ... > /dev/ttySAC0
        else
        /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.230 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
        fi
fi

echo Done > /dev/ttySAC0

This may not help much, but I don't understand why ifconfig is different
than your eth0-setting. Actually, I have never seen a /etc/eth0-setting
file in any root filesystems that I have run.

What is eth0-setting used for? Are you running NFS?

Hi davef;

Thanks four your quick response to my message. it is nic configuration file
 which is came out when you compile "linux source" which is supplied by
FriendlyARM("linux-2.6.32.2-mini2440_20110413.tgz").

However I changed this file and  set my network configurations with other
linux commands but stil not.

Do you have/know any solutions for that?

My other question is about rootFS. 
I want to use frienlyarm's kernel and debian linux on mini2440. Is it
possible to do that? Because I cant find very well documented instructions.
Can you advice me pls.

Sincerely,

Be aware that on some distribution that /etc is volatile, so your changes
may not persist.  Check that your changes are still there after a reboot.

There are some tutorials on Google Code (I think) about running Debian on
the mini2440.  Never did that myself.

Good luck!

Hi davef;

I achieved to do that, except touchscreen calibration. Do you know any easy
way to do calibration for touchscreen?

Sincerely,

Have you got ts_calibrate on the target?