Re: Probing update.

["Dean L. Hedin" <dhedin2001-at-home.com>]

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 02:10 pm, Mike Warehime wrote:
> I am not a linux guru by any means.  I just had some trouble getting the
> network card up myself.  If the modules are there for the network card,
> insmod xxx.o should load the module into the kernel.

I'm not a linux guru either but I have set up linux on quite a bit of
motherboards in the course of my work, including a couple company
servers and I am stumped.

I've tried several ethernet cards, some use the ne module, others use
the wd module.   All the cards are configured to 0x300 irq11.
All the cards tried are ISA bus,  I have linux softset utilities for all of 
them.  There is no problem with the modules loading with any of the cards.
lsmod shows ne (or wd) loaded.

My setup is as follows:  I have a "Linux Router Project" 486 box hooked to the
cable modem.  All of my machines are using 10baseT coax.   All cables
are properly terminated.   I have 2 PC's already up and running on the 
network, one a WIndow's box and the other a RH7.1 box.  The 486
router is also a dhcp server for all the other machines.  I don't think
it's a cabling issue because if it was, all the other machines would
not see the network.

> Then I seem to
> remember issuing a ifup eth0 to bring up the card.  If you want to discuss
> this some more with me I would try to help you get the network up.

Yes, If I run this on the BDI box configured for dhcp, eth0 loads
and then there is the long pause as it trys to get it's IP.  It 
fails and says  "Can't determine IP info for eth0."

> also the command ifconfig should list eth0 beside "lo" the loopback
> interface.
>
> ifconfig -all or /all can't recall windows and linux gets mixed for me.
>
> even before you try to set any ip the card should show under the ifconfig
> command.

I don't see eth0 when I run ifconfig because when the etc/rc.d/init.d/network
script fails to find an IP it disables the eth0 interface.

> Has this card ever worked on this system under the bdi for you??  i should
> have been asking that first i guess.

These cards work. The TX/RX lights go "blinky blinky" as they try to get the 
IP. This is my first time connecting the BDI box to the network.