question

Georgina gena at gena-j.net
Sat Mar 16 09:51:38 EST 2002


Hi

What do you get when you do a "lsmod"?  Is your network card module listed?  
Did you build support for your card into your kernel?  Have you looked at 
/etc/network/interfaces?


Gena



>Hi all. I finally got my kernel to boot, and after doing a make =
>oldconfig and editing .config to answer y to tulip support, the kernel =
>boots. It probes my ethernet card and calls it eth0. It also displays =
>its mac address and finds it on irq 10. However, the problem is that =
>when I check dev to make sure eth0 is present, it isn't there. Why would =
>the device not be initialized into a device file if it was probed =
>successfully? This doesn't really make sense to me, considering that =
>everything went ok. And naturally, I couldn't do ifconfig dhcp because =
>it didn't find the network interface? How could I go about fixing this =
>problem? Thanks in advance!=20
>
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