Re: Trouble with eth0

[Piero <ludovico.ariosto@wanadoo.fr>]

Gee Law wrote:
> whoops...should've gone to list...
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:35:45PM -0700, Piero Caracciolo wrote:
>
> > I have two ethernet cards, a D-Link DFE-530TX and a Broadcom 440x 
> > (integrated in my Asus motherboard). Debian 3.0 semms to detect at least 
> > one of them (I think the D-Link). Here are a few lines from dmesg:
> >
> >
> > > pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices...
> > > via-rhine.c:v1.08b-LK1.0.1 12/14/2000  Written by Donald Becker
> > > http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
> > > eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xb800, 00:05:5d:aa:3b:e0, IRQ 0.
> > > eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
> > > Partition check:
> >
> > Nevertheless this is the output of ifconfig:
> >
> >
> > > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
> > >         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> > >         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
> > >         RX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >         TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
> > >         RX bytes:8604 (8.4 KiB)  TX bytes:8604 (8.4 KiB)
> > >
> > > sl0       Link encap:Serial Line IP  
> > >         inet addr:192.168.0.1  P-t-P:192.168.0.2  Mask:255.255.255.255
> > >         UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
> > >         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >         collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 
> > >         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >
> > And this is the output of netstat -i:
> >
> >
> > > Kernel Interface table
> > > Iface   MTU Met   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR   TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR 
> > > Flg
> > > lo     3924   0     107      0      0      0     107      0      0      0 
> > > LRU
> > > sl0    1492   0       0      0      0      0       0      0      0      0 
> > > MOPRU
> >
> > This shows that interface eth0 is not really detected.
> > Has anyboy got an idea?
> >
> > Should eth0 be in /dev ?
>
>
> You need to edit /etc/network/interfaces. Here's mine:
>
> # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
>                                                                                 
> # The loopback interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>                                                                                 
> # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
> auto eth0 eth1
> iface eth0 inet static
>         address 129.31.25.22
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         broadcast 129.31.25.255
>         gateway 129.31.25.1
>                                                                                 
> iface eth1 inet static
>         address 192.168.0.2
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         broadcast 192.168.0.255
>
>
> Check out man interfaces for more info.

Thanks, it sounds reassuring. I cannot give static address, though, 
since they schould be obatained dynamically through DHCP: my computer is 
connected to a Router-Switch that contains an embedded DHCP server. The 
thing is that, in order to install a dhcp client, I need to have a 
working eth interface (I believe).
If you can tell me something more, it will be welcomed.

Piero.