Re: /dev/eth0 missing

[aphro <nate@firetrail.com>]

eth0 is not a /dev device

dont worry about it


nate
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote:

msherm >I just installed potato, and installed the NE2000 driver
msherm >(ne) for my ethernet card.  I manually set the "option=..."
msherm >and "alias eth0 ne" lines in modules.conf, and it loads 
msherm >correctly on boot (printing a success message to the console).
msherm >However, when I look in /dev, there is no /dev/eth0 device;
msherm >am I supposed to create this device manually?  I looked at
msherm >the /dev/MAKEDEV script, but it doesn't mention eth0 at all.
msherm >Also, I have a second network card in the machine; should I
msherm >install this as eth1?
msherm >
msherm >Thanks,
msherm >- Marc
msherm >
msherm >
msherm >
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msherm >

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