Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:45:54PM -0700, francisco wrote:
> El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 22:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:00:39PM -0700, francisco wrote:
> > > El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??:
> > > > 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.
> > > > Are you seriously telling people that you can't add a NIC to Debian
> > > > without re-installing? Get a life.
> > > 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.
> > >
>
> > It seems that the linux driver for your card requires that you steal the
> > firmware from another driver and stick it into the linux driver. Good
> > luck with that.
> >
> > Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported
> > by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning
> > eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian networking
> > tools.
> >
> > In short, your problem isn't with the networking tools, its with a
> > non-functional driver.
>
> Ah, ok i understand that you can not do it!. You can only in theory!
>
You challenged me on setting up two NICs in Linux, not about getting a
half-assed driver to work. Two different problems.
Doug.
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