do an 'ifconfig' (or was it 'ifconfig -a'?), and look for
entries that look like 'ethN' where N is 0 -> (however
many nics you have, minus one)
if you don't see anything, linux didn't recognize your nic
on boot. if you do see something then at least the kernel
is recognizing it, so a networking parameter somewhere is
awry (beyond the scope of what I'm willing to get into here,
in rh i think all thats in /etc/sysconfig).
try manually configuring it:
eg "ifconfig ethN {ip-add} netmask {netmask}"
"route add default gw {gw ip}" (<-- right order?)
also try the command 'dmesg' to look through the boot
messages. most ethernet drivers will say something about
"foo driver initialized, blah card at irq X"...
kernel manipulation commands:
lsmod -- lists current modules
rmmod -- remove a module
insmod -- insert a module
modprobe -- like an rmmod or insmod that
checks to make sure dependencies
are satisfied.
and of course, go to the redhat site and under support iirc
hit the HCL for rh 6.0 (hardware compat list) to make sure
your card is supported by the kernel shipped with rh 6.0
(the HCL will also tell you handy things like what the name of
the kernel module for {card} is along with any parameters it
may take)
I think RH shipped with kernel 2.2.5ish for 6.0. There have been
new networking drivers added and old ones improved since then,
so simply using a distro with a more modern kernel might be
helpful (you choices might be a little limited if you're running
sparc linux as you email seems to imply, but redhat 6.2 shipped
on the sparc platform, and it IIRC ships with kernel 2.2.14).
Or hit ftp.us.kernel.org and pull a new kernel (this is the
topic of a whole different email, but the _Running Linux_ oreilly
book has a very good chapter on it).
HTH,
mike
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