question

[Steve Holmes]

It sounds like your network device is being found.  Try ifconfig right
now and see what you get.  Undoubtedly, you will probably get some
errors since you haven't configured the I/P addresses and such.  From
here on, you should probably do some reading of such HOWTO documents
such as ethernet-howto, net3-howto, and I think there may be something
for dhcp.  I haven't personally had to deal with dhcp so would have to
read up on that one myself if/when I have to do it.

I don't mean to be evasive here but there is so much info it bares
reading and studying to get the most out of it.  I even found that
reading some of those howto's over again several times, I get more out
of them.

Like Greg said, netconfig works well for a single network interface if
on a slackware system.  Not sure what distro you are using however.

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:13:56PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi Greg. Sorry that I asked about /dev/eth0 in the last post, its just that I hadn't gotten to your last post about it. Sorry about that one. So if everything is totally fine, what would be the syntax to configure the interface using dhcp? Would it be ifconfig dhcp? Thanks for all the help! 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: question
> 
> 
> > It sounds to me like you're perfectly fine. There aren't supposed to be any ethernet device enteries under /dev. What I'm saying is that it is perfectly normal and standard for you not to have a /dev/eth0 file.
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:29:34AM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > > 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! 
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