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:confused: Hello,
I was curious to know if Linux does not mount my NIC card on start-up, do I need a new card. The reason I ask is, obviously linux does not contain the drivers necessary to mount that NIC or it would have at boot. Could someone shed some light on the topic.
Madman
maybe....as soon as you give some light on what NIC you have and some details.
It's extremely unlikely that you have an unsupported network card, IMO. NIC support has always been one of Linux's strongest suits in the hardware department. The stock kernel has modules for just about every card out there, and it may be a simple matter of loading a module. What kind of card is it, and it would probably also be helpful if you could post the output of 'ifconfig eth0'.
Sir,
There is no eth0 mounted. So I can't run the command. The card is a Farallon NetLine (PN993-TX). I've searched the support site and can't locate any sort of linux driver. Any more help?
"Any more help?"
http://www.suse.com :)
sorry had too.
Try an NE2000 nic driver.
That's a generic nic driver that supports lots of cards. That should get you going
--PuRe
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that card uses the DEC Tulip driver. Try 'modprobe tulip' and see what happens. It's worth a shot.
when you say it doesn't mount, are you saying that it's not seeing it when you see it boot up where it fails to activate eth0? does it say anything on your dmesg? dmesg | grep eth0 or something?
-w0rm3y
Ok guys,
I did some extensive research and I found that the eth0 is not even in present. In present, I mean it's not there at all. So I had to manually go in and make a 'eth0', but apperently it can't initialize it. So basically, I'm at the point where I have no idea what to do except trial and error until it loads correctly.
At one point, I did get it to initialize but it wouldn't 'activate'. help
That means nothing to me.
This may be a stupid question, forgive me for asking
Is there a lan associated with this NIC?
I had a NIC in my computer that I was using as a standalone, it was never seen. When I finally got dsl service and plugged something into the card it was seen and configured automatically by kudzu.
I wish the W98 side of the computer went as easily.
Yes, in fact there is a LAN association. But I don't believe that it would have any thing to do with it's activation. Essentially, I'm just curious if linux provides some sort of 'failsafe' driver that is globally compatable.
The NE2000 drivers don't seem to be working correctly, but it's most likely my fault. Also, what does Suse have to offer that is better than Redhat.
Madman
What I was trying to ask is, is anything plugged into the NIC? You can't have an eth0 without the NIC actually plugged into a network.
Indeed I do have something plugged in sir. CAT5 directly to my router. WAN = cable modem.
Madman
type: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 up...if you get some type of error code, you need to load the correct module....if you have no idea what module to use, cd to your lib/modules/net dir and just try insmod "whatever.o" until you get the right one.....OR search google for linux ethernet how-to hehe...
PN993-TX NetLINE 10/100 PCI Card, 10/100Base-T Card, Win only says some online shop... bleh... try not to use DHCP, very strange but that card seems to have probs with DHCP under linux? next try the de4x5 or tulip drivers.
maybe you can see 'eth0' but DHCP is not kicking in. To test this theory, change to /etc/rc.d/init.d. Then type './network restart'. If it's USB, type './usb start or restart'. I just got back into Linux after many years.... hope that helped.
Hmmm one of the things I would try doing is seeing if the NIC card is seated firmly in the slot on the mobo. hope that helps you a bit
I'm also fairly certain its a tulip based card. Use the redhat network administration tool(Enter 'neat' from shell) and add a eth0 device with the tulip module and see if that works for you.
-Maestr0
If it is possible to initialize it, ensure that it has a unique IP if you are not using DHCP so that it can be activated. Ne ways modprobe would be the best option