On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:05:04 +1200 Reg wrote: > On Wednesday 16 August 2006 16:27, Nick Rout wrote: > > First thing to do is see if your network card is recognised and a driver > > loaded. Try ifconfig at the command line and see what network devices it > > sees. If your device has been recognised there will probably be a device > > there that has no IP address allocated. > > tried that command and I dont think it recognises the card. It did come up > with some stuff, but as I am on another computer (fortunately now beside the > other one and yay I am typing this opn my suse based machine. Not the XP one > inside :-) If you really need me to type all the stuff here I can, but lets > understand the globe icon first maybe. > > > > Another way of seeing this is that on my install there is a little > > network connection icon in the task bar (next to the clock, bottom right > > of the desktop, looks like a globe or something). Click on it and enter > > the root password and see what it says there. > > > yes its there and lets me type in root password etc and takes me to a window > that has what looks like yellow coloured network cards. > ones says PLIP network inteface > one says plog ........ I think > one says pbsync ....... again I think thats what it says but I have forgotten > where I found the setting for diplay as with this 14 inch monitor I can read > it properly > > > anyway besides that under the link column all three have the word (Error) and > no IP Adresses defined or any other details.
OK having re-read your first email and seen the obvious, namely that it is a ne2000: The ne2000 driver is if_ed by the looks of it. Try (as root) kldload if_ed Then try ifconfig again and see if there is a device ed0. If there isn't look at the output of dmesg, only the last few lines will be relevant. If there is an ed0 try dhclient ed0 and see if it now gets an ip address etc via dhcp. If it doesn't get an ip address the output of dhclient may give a clue. If we have success at this point we will then sort out how to make the module loading and dhcp permanent. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
