On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 15:40, will martin wrote: > i've recompiled the kernel mutiple times checking the configuration i've used countless times with other distro's my network card failed to come online. it's reconized but unless i go back to the stock kernel it fails to bring up the network. The configuration is correct as i've went over it many times. I'm used the debain version of the kernel source 2.4.18 with a linksys card using the tulip driver? anyone with advice on what I might be missing? This is just one computer connected to a cable modem. > > the ifconfig output with the net kernel is: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:5A:50:AA:6F > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overrns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overrns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800 > > The card seems to share the same irq with the built in sound (via686a southbridge) altho it doesnt cause any probelms with stock kernel or other distro's after a recompile. I'm guess it's not a kernel probelm but a debian config i'm not aware of? any help or pointers to man pages or sites that could help me would be great. Post the contents of /etc/network/interfaces and then we can go forward. At the moment all we know is that your ethernet card's driver works. Regards Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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