Re: Setting up eth1 interface
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Sean Norris,,, wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have been trying to set up a small local network with a linux box as a
> gateway and my wife's win98 laptop.
>
> I am running potato with a fresh 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org.
> Currently, a D-link DE-530TX is working well with a tulip driver loaded
> as a module to connect to my cable modem. The second NIC is a linksys
> LNE-100TX ver. 4.0, which also uses the tulip driver.
>
> However, I cannot get the eth1 interface to initialize.
>
> #ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth1: unknown interface: No such device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> eth1: unknown interface: No such device
>
Are you sure the module loaded ? sounds like some kind of driver problem.
'lsmod' will tell you more about that, also you could take a look at the
output of 'dmesg'. Maybe that will tell you what went wrong.
Hope this helps.
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