Re: NIC is working, but how?
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:30, Mario Flores wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I just installed debian woody in a dell pc (400 Mhz, 128 megs, and a
> 3com NIC: 3c905B 100BaseTX). During the installation of debian, the
> installation of any network card module failed. All network
> configuration was wrong and kept getting the "neighbour table overflow"
> message. After installation, I manually configured the
> /etc/netwrok/interfaces to have:
>
> auto lo
> auto eth0
>
> iface lo inet loopback
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> I rebooted the system expecting the eht0 not to work but at least fix
> the loopback interface and to my surprise eth0 was working as well! I
> could not find which module the kernel is using for eth0 anywhere. Is it
> possible that it is not using any module? The output for lsmod is:
>
> Module Size Used by
> parport_pc 7276 1 (autoclean)
> lp 4580 0 (unused)
> parport 6676 1 [parport_pc lp]
> af_packet 6136 1
>
> The output for ifconfig is:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:4F:70:91:B4
> inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
> RX packets:7251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:5574 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:4234385 (4.0 MiB) TX bytes:882175 (861.4 KiB)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00
>
> 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:280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:18208 (17.7 KiB) TX bytes:18208 (17.7 KiB)
>
> Does anyone know how debian configures the NIC? Thanks,
>
The way that you just did it :o)
I'm guessing that support for that NIC was compiled into the kernel,
thus no kernel module was required.
-davidc
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