[KLUG Members] Network Card

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
15 Jul 2001 17:51:50 -0400


>>After you boot you can replay those messages with "dmesg"
>>>it says there. It says something about unloading the card, but there
>>>are tons of errors saying /dev/modem isnt there.  (thats the only one i
>>>can remember off hand, but there are others)  An something else that
>>>struck me as odd, is that when i start the comptuer is doesnt say Loading 
>>>Eth0.
>>Eth0 won'd be starting/stopping unless you've configured the IP (OSI Layer 3,
>>...sorry... just got done doing network training...) information for the
>>interface.
>I was just looking through my starup messages with dmesg and it says the
>following:
>eth0: Xircom cardbus revision 3 at irq 8
>but its still not working!


OK, so your hardware appears to be go.  What does the outout of
"/sbin/ifconfig" look like?  Have you gone into control-panel and setup
the IP information,  or did you set it to DHCP?