question

[Victor Tsaran]

Hi, Igor!
Loopback interface will work regardless of whether your physical network
card working or not. Loopback interface, 127.0.0.1, is present in Linux by
default. So your card is not working properly if it is not detected by
ifconfig.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at yahoo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: question


> Hi Victer. The card is actually recognized, and the
> module seems to load fine. In fact, when I do
> ifconfig, I get status messages. Something like this:
> Loopback=127.0.0.1. Netmask=255.255.0.0. Mtu=16300.
> Then it goes on to display packet stats. At least I
> got an mtu reading that wasn't 0, so I believe that
> this could indicate that the interface is functioning.
> Is this so? By the way, to answer your question on the
> SMC cards, I actually have a Linksys card that uses
> the tulip module.
> What I'm planning to do something like ifconfig eth0
> -dhcp to configure the interface based on dhcp. Also,
> sorry for the long response time, its just that mail
> over here was down for about two days, and its back
> up. -I have also noticed an interesting atribute in
> kernel 2.4.18. Every time -I press the del key,
> dec-talk says numlock on. COuld this have to do with
> an incorrect keymap being loaded at boot time? Thanks
> in advance!- Victor Tsaran <tsar at sylaba.poznan.pl>
> wrote:
> > Hi, Igor!
> > Is there a possibility that your netcard module
> > conflicts with another
> > module which kicks it out? Can you do a full "dmesg"
> > trace and see what
> > happens there? Also, if I remember correctly,
> > tulip.o module was for SMC
> > cards, right? If yes, then I think there was some
> > update to that module last
> > year. But that might not apply to you since you are
> > using the newest kernel,
> > is that so?
> > Also, I think that your card might be recognized by
> > the hardware detection
> > tool, but the module itself does not load. Perhaps
> > you should check your
> > /etc/modules.conf or edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to
> > have your module load
> > at startup.
> > Vic
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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