>What I cannot yet do is to network with an existing Sun Network. What >I currently can see (dmesg) is: --- >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. >loading device 'eth0'... >CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California --- >I am not sure if my ethernet module is loading correctly. All I see is: > "loading device 'eth0'..." >Is it supposed to give the ethernet card number as well?
Presently, the ethernet probe should, for the 3c501, 503, 505, or 509 cards (3c501.c 9/23/94, 3c503.c v1.10, 3c507.c v1.10, 3c509.c v1.03) logs a message when it hits a card. Are you sure you've got your card configured in the kernel? >Also, When I do "ifconfig eth0", I get: >eth0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr >00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 [ snip ] > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x280 >I do not understand this. I expect the ethernet addr would have been >the "HWaddr" It is. >Does it also mean that the network masks and things are not correct? >They have been set in /etc/networks/netmasks No, those are another layer up from this. This is a device layer problem, because it deals with your card, not a protocol or network layer problem, dealing with /etc/* >Does this mean that my ethernet card is not configured correctly? It's >a 3com card. Which one? And is it indeed at 0x280 irq 5? >I am used to SunOS networking, and I have noticed a few differences >between Linux and SunOS, such as /etc/hostname.eth0, etc, > Or can someone give me some ready pointers to files that should >have different bits of info (e.g. /etc/ethers, etc/hosts, etc, etc) Lesseee... I posted that a while back to this list... Check out the debian-user archive, under latest/2786. Note that there was a typo; /etc/networks is not the same format as /etc/hosts. -- http://www.wp.com/joelh --- Joel Ray Holveck --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped
