David Z Maze wrote:
Praveen Kallakuri <prav@cox.net> writes:i have a dell precision 360 with an Intel® PRO/1000 MT Gigabit6 Ethernet LOM. i learned that e1000 is the driver and got it by compiling kernel 2.4.22. i inserted aprop entries in /etc/network/interfaces and in modutils/ and updated modules.conf.What exactly did you do?
in /etc/network/interfaces, i added 2 lines (initially it had just lo): auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp in /etc/modutils/eth, i have 1 line: alias eth0 e1000i then ran update-modules and checked that the alias has been added in /etc/modules.conf.
finally, i ran ifup eth0. thats when i get the message above and no IP.
when i try to bring up the interface, this message appears on the console e1000: eth0 NIC Link is up 100Mbps full duplex without any obvious error message. but when i check ifconfig, i get all the lines in a standard interface display except the line with the IP address and mask. route is emptyThat sounds consistent with the state where you've installed a kernel driver for a network interface, but not explicitly assigned an IP address to it. Seeing the relevant fragment from /etc/network/interfaces would be helpful, I think.
well its supposed to contact a dhcp server and get the IP. i haven't tried statically setting the IP. i am not sure that will work. the dhcp server is beyond my control. but connecting my laptop (which also runs debian) promptly gave my the IP address. there are 2 LED's near the rear of the machine which promptly glow when i insert the ethernet cord. any ideas???
solong