Missing Network support: was Re: Booting with different kernels -- what am I missing?

[Stephen Clower]

Hi Doug,
  Yep, still no go. According to the laptop, eth0 does not exist, and therefore can't be used to connect to the network. When I compiled the kernel with network support enabled, I assumed that my laptop's NIC would be found when I booted into the new kernel... guess I was wrong, eh?


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On 5/19/2004 at 10:17 PM Doug Sutherland wrote:

>> I compiled the driver, 3c59x directly into the kernel.
> > Doing a modprobe 3c59x returned, as I expected, a module not found error
>
>Well if you compiled it into the kernel then there is no module to probe,
>so that's not surprising. However, the kernel should show some message at
>boot when it finds the hardware. After booting do a dmesg | more and look
>for the ethernet stuff.
>
> > running ifconfig eth0 as root tells me that the ethernet interface could
> > not be open. Is this kernel bad for Dell laptops?
>
>Hmmm 3c59x is very common hardware. I'd be really surprised if you can't
>make this work
>
>Does lspci show your ethernet card?
>Try ifconfig eth0 down
>then
>ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
>then ifconfig eth0
>Still no go?
>
>   -- Doug
>
>
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