Mint 10, not IPv6 ready??

Edward78

Edward78

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$ [ -f /proc/net/if_inet6 ] && echo 'IPv6 ready system!' || echo 'No IPv6 support found! Compile the kernel!!'

I used that command & got No IPv6 support found! Compile the kernel!!
I have the kernel that was installed with Mint 10, that should support IPv6 right? I don't want to compile my own kernel.
 
Have you tried "modprobe ipv6"? I don't use Mint myself but it seems a weird thing to leave out of a distro.
 
Edward78 said:
It says Unknown id: modprobe, seems dumb to me also to leave it out.
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what are you running to get that? You should be running:

Code: 
sudo modprobe ipv6
(assuming you are not already in as root)

edit:

Actually scrap the above ... just downloaded and installed Mint 10 (Live DVD) onto the test lab at work and threw it on a VM and told it to install to disk.
Once installed and rebooted I can't install the ipv6 module because ipv6 is included in the default kernel which is installed. In fact the eth0 already lists an ipv6 address associated with it.

Kernel version is:
Code: 
# uname -a
Linux linuxtemp 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:32:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I do have a tab for ipv6 for eth0 in the connection manager too.
 
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memyselfandi said:
what are you running to get that? You should be running:

Code: 
sudo modprobe ipv6
(assuming you are not already in as root)

edit:

Actually scrap the above ... just downloaded and installed Mint 10 (Live DVD) onto the test lab at work and threw it on a VM and told it to install to disk.
Once installed and rebooted I can't install the ipv6 module because ipv6 is included in the default kernel which is installed. In fact the eth0 already lists an ipv6 address associated with it.

Kernel version is:
Code: 
# uname -a
Linux linuxtemp 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:32:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I do have a tab for ipv6 for eth0 in the connection manager too.
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I have a IPv6 tab also that is why I am confused about it saying I don't have IPv6 after I typed that command. I do have a IPv6 addy though.
 
I'd presume someone's done some kernel modding somewhere, and has moved the default IPv6 driver; All your command does is check for the existance of it in the default directory.
Much better method of telling whether you have IPv6-
Code: 
ip a | grep inet6

-Leezer-
 
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