Re: Trouble with eth0

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

Paul wrote:
> First u need to make sure your kernel has the right
> drivers for your nics either compiled in or as
> modules. 

How can I do that?



 Secondly, you need to make sure
> /etc/network/interfaces is setup correctly. 

I suppose the man entry will help.


 Thirdly
> if you use dhcp to connect to your isp, then you need
> to make sure either pump or dhcpcd is installed for it
> to work.

That I know is not installed: I thought I had to have a working eth 
interface first.

Thnks,

Piero.



> hopefully that will get you on the right path
>
>
> --- Piero Caracciolo <piero.caracciolo@ens.fr> 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 ?
> > Thanks,
> > Piero.
> >
> >
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