Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?
El mié, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribió:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:02:31AM +0200, Matthias Feichtinger wrote:
> > I had the same problem.
> > The mistake was made while installing.
> > It is not possible to change things, e.g. having to configure more
> > than one ethernetcard.
> > I made a script of my own need and everythings works as I wanted it
> > to work. So, first man ifconfig, then man route and if needed, you might
> > start your script with init.d.
> > At next installing don't mention any NIC at all. The debian way to do
> > is a kind of mystery. When there's enough time I will rebuild it.
>
> Are you seriously telling people that you can't add a NIC to Debian
> without re-installing? Get a life.
>
> Now, if you're using some pointy-clicky lindows thingy, perhaps. Get
> rid of it.
>
> udev should find all your hardware. If you find it doesn't, do the
> old-fashioned method. Find the right module (read the kernel-docs, read
> the chips on your NIC, match them up), and insmod it. If you need
> parameters its easier (if you want a bit of a GUI) to install modconf
> which will ask for the parameters and put them in the right place.
>
> Your module name would go under /etc/modules and be loaded at each boot.
>
> Once you have an eth* you can then go ahead and put it in
> /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> Done.
>
> The Debian way isn't a mistery. Read the debian-manual, man pages, and
> if necessary, ask here.
>
> Doug.
>
>
Could you, forget the theoretical explanation and show it by a simple
example? i have the same problem, and it can not be solve by ifconfig,
iwconfig, route and others. Broadcom card 4311, Compaq Presario v3019US.
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