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Re: Quick eth question



On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 15:51:49 MDT Mike Patterson (mike@col.hp.com) 
wrote:

> I have an ne2000 card that worked in 1.2.1... And I just moved to 1.3.1.
> 
> in /var/log/messages I see the line: 
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9 
> 
> but there is no /dev/eth0, and executing the command: MAKEDEV eth0 
> gives me: 
> MAKEDEV: unknown device or group eth0

I doubt you ever had a /dev/eth0. Network interfaces don't have an entry in dev. They're manipulated through ifconfig.
Try ifconfig eth0 <addr> up.

Phil.



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