RE: How to create /dev/eth*?
you dont need to create the device.
the device will be there if your kernel support the ethernet card, which is
probably not what you did.
so compile your kernel to support the ethernet card and everything should be
fine.
Benoit
On 18-Mar-99 Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> I recently got a DSL connection at home. When I first installed Linux in
> this machine at home it did not have an ethernet card. I used to use ppp
> to connect to the net. This machine is running slink from the mid-feb
> time-frame.
>
> I copied over /etc/init.d/network from another Debian box and edited the
> IP, GATEWWAY etc. parts. I notice that I do not have /dev/eth*. How do I
> create these /dev/eth* entries?
>
> Plug:
>
> Brad in Kingston technologies' tech support line was really helpful. I
> called Kingston expecting the "I'm sorry. We do not support Linux"
> response. I asked Brad what chipset theit KNE110/TX PCI ethernet cards
> were based on. He immediately pulled up a URL which talks about Linux
> support for this card (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/pnic.html)
> and emailed it to me.
>
>
> Thaths
> PS: Would appreciate if you Cc-ed me in your replies to this thread.
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Date: 18-Mar-99
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