Configuring Network Card

[Wayne Richardson <wrichardson@wpmail.code3.com>]

I am trying to add a network card and I am having a lot of trouble.  Can
anyone out there help?

When I enter the command "ifconfig eth0 <cr>", I get:

eth0     Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM  HWaddr
            inetaddr:143.122.16.109  Bcast:143.122.16.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
            BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:0   Metric:1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
            Interrupt:5 Base Address:0x280

The inet, broadcast and mask addresses all look fine.  I am assuming that
since the program responded that it tested the IRQ5 and base address
for the network card (Is this a safe assumption?)

When I enter "route -n <cr>", I get the following reponse

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway     Genmask     Flags     Metric    Ref    Use   Iface
127.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0    U            0            0       0        lo

and that's it!  There is no entry for my network card.

So, I try to add it to the system.

When I enter the following: "ifconfig eth0 143.122.16.109", I get:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device

If I then enter "route add 143.122.16.109", I get
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

What's going on?

Thanks in advance,
Wayne Richardson 
Advanced Software Engineer
3M Health Information Systems


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