topic Re: network card in Operating System - Linux

network card

Pieter_5 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:53:22 GMT

Hi,

I installed Linux on one of my test-boxes. I gave it a ip-adres with yast. However during boot it complains about. eth0 could not get a valid device name.

Re: network card

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:30:49 GMT

What kind of NIC?

Is it on the support list, was it auto detecteed?

What distribution of Linux?

check the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and see if there is an inconsistency in the file yast created.

Consider doing this in command line mode in the future.

SEP

Re: network card

yufei_3 — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:03:54 GMT

dmesg to check if there is error on eth0

if not,perform ifconfig command

for example ifup eth0

Re: network card

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:52:36 GMT

Pieter,

can you please send us output of : "ifconfig -a" and "lsmod" commands?

10x,
Vitaly

Re: network card

Hoefnix — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:12:15 GMT

Hi,

Because you mentioned YAST it will be a SuSE distro.
You can also configure the driver for the NIC using Yast.
It should mention details about the card manufactor in the Yast window "Network Cards Configuration"

If not You have to configure "Other(not detected)"

Then Yast should configure a eth0 alias in the /etc/modules.conf.

HTH,
Peter