Re: ethernet not working right

[Ryan Mackay <rinmak@technine.org>]

Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:12:55PM -0500, Forest Fisher wrote:
> I just installed Debian (Woody) on my new laptop with
> the 2.4.18 kernel.  My laptop is a hp pavilion
> ze4560us and the ethernet card is National
> Semiconductor Corporation DP83815.  I set the
> ethernet up by editing /etc/network/interfaces,
> changing the first line to auto lo eth0 and adding,
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> Then,
> 
> #modprobe natsemi
> 
> lspci recognizes the card.  But then,
> 
> #ifconfig ext0 up
> 
> gives me
> 
> eth00: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
> device
> 
> #ifup ext0
> 
> gives me
> 
> Ignoring unkown interface ext0=ext0
> 
> when I try to run dhclient I get similar results.
> For example,
> 
> #dhclient
> 
> gives me
> 
> eth0: autonegotiation did not complete in 4000 usec.
> eth0: link up.
> 
> afterward ifconfig shows eth0 but there is no IP.
> Again,
> 
> #dhclient
> 
> gives me
> 
> "ext0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
> device
> 
> I also tried replacing the line
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> with
> 
> iface_eth0="dhcp"
> 
> at the suggestion of a friend, but this gives me the
> same results.  Can anyone help please?
> 
> Sincerely,
> Forest Fisher
> 

Sorry if their just typos but should ext0 be eth0?
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Cheers,
rinmak <rinmak@technine.org>