At 03:23 PM 9/17/02 +0000, pa3gcu wrote: >On Monday 16 September 2002 21:53, Yelland, Michael wrote: > > I installed RHS 7.1 but ifconfig has no idea where my 3Com eth III > > is...what to do ? I'm learning unix quickly :)
I missed the original message. Without duplicating Richard's fine advice, I do want to raise a different issue. You are checking for the card using ifconfig. The normal (no arguments) use of this app will find only configured interfaces, that is, ones with IP addresses assigned. So from your report, it is unclear whether the problem is that the kernel module is not properly initializing the NIC (Richard's answer assumed that) or that the NIC is getting initialized but the interface not configured. To distinguish these two possibilities, look at the output of "ifconfig -a". The -a argument tells it to report on all interfaces, not just configured ones. If you have no eth0, then follow Richard's advice. If you do have an eth0 but it has no IP address, check on how you set up your networking. (I can't be more specific here until you tell us how the host is *supposed* to get its IP address.) PS - Please try to use more informative Subject: lines in the future. For an example, see the difference between your original and the replacement I provided here. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
