Re: eth0--what's up?
its normal, there isn't supposed to be a device for eth* in /dev
nate
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Fish Smith wrote:
dyson_ >Whoo--I saw the Matrix last night, quite a trip.
dyson_ >
dyson_ >On to business.
dyson_ >What exactly is eth0? From the way I've seen it
dyson_ >discussed I always presumed it was a device node,
dyson_ >residing in the /dev directory, just as ttyS1 is my
dyson_ >modem, ttyS0 is my mouse, hda is my first hard drive,
dyson_ >hdd is my cdrom. But during the boot up sequence it
dyson_ >tells me it's initiating eth0 as SMC EZ ethernet
dyson_ >whatever at 0x300 with irq whatever, but no eth0
dyson_ >appears in /dev. I know everything initialized right
dyson_ >because I can smbmount over the ethernet, so the
dyson_ >missing link must be my understanding of what eth0
dyson_ >refers to.
dyson_ >
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