On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:30, Mario Flores wrote: > Hi: > > I just installed debian woody in a dell pc (400 Mhz, 128 megs, and a > 3com NIC: 3c905B 100BaseTX). During the installation of debian, the > installation of any network card module failed. All network > configuration was wrong and kept getting the "neighbour table overflow" > message. After installation, I manually configured the > /etc/netwrok/interfaces to have: > > auto lo > auto eth0 > > iface lo inet loopback > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > I rebooted the system expecting the eht0 not to work but at least fix > the loopback interface and to my surprise eth0 was working as well! I > could not find which module the kernel is using for eth0 anywhere. Is it > possible that it is not using any module? The output for lsmod is: > > Module Size Used by > parport_pc 7276 1 (autoclean) > lp 4580 0 (unused) > parport 6676 1 [parport_pc lp] > af_packet 6136 1 > > The output for ifconfig is: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:4F:70:91:B4 > inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 > RX packets:7251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:5574 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:4234385 (4.0 MiB) TX bytes:882175 (861.4 KiB) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 > RX packets:280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:18208 (17.7 KiB) TX bytes:18208 (17.7 KiB) > > Does anyone know how debian configures the NIC? Thanks, >
The way that you just did it :o) I'm guessing that support for that NIC was compiled into the kernel, thus no kernel module was required. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
