On Wed, 31 May 2000, Chuck Wilson wrote about, Ethernet Woes.:
> Hello!
>
> My ethernet card will not load under redhat 6.2. It worked before, but
> stopped working. Is there any way i can manually load the ethernet card and
> then the network drivers? any help appreciated!!
An ethernet card does not "load" its plugged into a socket on your
motherboard, it needs a driver to comunicate with the kernel.
Its the ethernet driver wich has to be loaded. If you had said which card
you have then i could have told you which driver to load.
Now all i can do it speculate and give you an example for 2 different cards
i use.
Both examples are in module form, i expect this to be the case on your
machine as Redhat supplies all its kernels with a full set of modules as
default. Providing of course you installed the modules at install time.
Modules reside in /lib/modules/'uname -r'/*
Where uname -r = your kernel version number, thats possably 2.2.14-5.0 on
your system.
Modprobe is the program which loads the driver,
ifconfig configures the cards addresses
route adds the routes.
1) A 3com 3C905B 100bTX
modprobe 3c59x
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1
route add default eth0
2) A ne2000
In /etc/config.modules or /etc/modules.conf whichever you have, you will
need:
alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0xXXX (where XXX is the I/O port number.
modprobe ne
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1
It could also be that you did not configure the network properly or not at
all during install time as normally redhat probes for a card under this
option.
To tell Redhat whats to be done one edits the following files with the
nessacary information.
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
The Ethernet-HOWTO found in /usr/doc/HOWTO should help you more.
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