Indeed. I've spent the morning recompiling the kernel and I've found the driver for the ethernet card. The option for it didn't appear until I'd enabled two other things. I'm a total newbie at ethernet. Anyway, dmesg now shows it finds the pci card on bootYou'll need to get your internal network going before you can join it to the external network. Since you said you had this going with Windows beforehand, I assume you do have a network card in the machine? You'll need the correct kernel module for it which should provide the eth0 device.
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004) 8139cp: pci dev 0000:00:12.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip 8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x9800, 00:e0:18:b1:8a:93, IRQ 17 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
(Woot! Happy dance!)
It creates the eth0 device so the error message has changed (which is always a good sign), it no longer says
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Now these commands go through without error
root:/home/andy# echo 1>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward root:/home/andy# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 root:/home/andy#
and ifconfig shows it's created the eth0 interface. However, the xbox still can't see the internet so there's still some way to go. Still, at least the error messages have started to change. I think I need to read up on these networking commands.
The trouble with this situation is that when I Google on it all I can find is page after page of people trying to install linux on an xbox. I've not read anyone anywhere write about using an xbox through a linux gateway. It was very encouraging to read that you can use a PS2 in a network. Thankyou
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