Re: trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 17:07:44 -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> On Friday 02 June 2006 12:55 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, tom arnall wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude c600. From
> > > information on the itnernet, the driver for the card is '3c59x'. I am
> > > able to load this with modprobe. But when I do 'ifconfig 3c59x eth0' I
> > > get 'eth0: Host name lookup failure'. My kernel is 2.6.9 installed via
> > > Knoppix. Ideas?
> >
> > You're confusing two steps. To install the driver, you need:
> >
> > modprobe 3c59x
> >
> > assuming the driver is available, not compiled into the kernel, and not
> > already installed.
> >
> > To configure the interface once the driver is installed, you use
> >
> > ifconfig eth0
> >
> > but that will only print out the information on the interface; you need to
> > determine the appropriate parameters for your network and use them to set
> > it up. Eventually you should put these in /etc/network/interfaces to avoid
> > having to set it up maually each time.
> >
> when i do 'ifconfig eth0' i get 'eth0: error fetching interface information: 
> Device not found.'
> 
> is there a way to check if the card is in physically working condition? 

Let's first check which network devices are recognized on your system.
Please post the output of the following commands:

lspci -v | awk '{IGNORECASE=1};/net|modem|firewire/,/^$/'
ls -l /sys/class/net/
ip link
dpkg -l udev hotplug

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Regards,
          Florian