bring up eth0

[Vanja]

Hi all,

Relatively new to linux and playing around with the kernel.

I've loaded a mini kernel using INSERT-1.3.6.
Trying to troubleshoot a network connection.

Now after loading the kernel modules tg3,bnx2,and e1000 I still can't get eth0 to come up. These are the modules that I usually use with the cards that I have loaded in these types of systems. When I run ifconfig on eth0 I get "SIOCSIFADDR: No such device" and a few other messages. I've attached a print screen of the console output to this thread.

Any help in getting eth0 up will be appreciated. I'm assuming I'm missing some step but not sure what. Points will be dealt accordingly.

Thanks!

[Hemmetter · Accepted solution]

Hi Vania,

after loading the drivers with:
$ modprobe bnx2
and
$ modprobe e1000

you should find some eth's im dmesg output.

can you post:
$ dmesg | grep -i eth
and also
$ ifconfig -a


rgds
HGH

[Ivan Ferreira]

After running modprobe, you already should see the eth0 device unconfigured if the device is detected by the module.

Ensure that after loading the module you do have the eth0 device in the output of ifconfig -a.

[Vanja]

Thanks for the input.

After loading the drivers I don't see eth0, eth1, eth2, or eth3 in output of ifconfig -a, as I expect. The only thing that I see in ifconfig -a is the loopback interface. I will be able to do some more troubleshooting on Monday. If you guys have any other tips or clues I appreciate it.

Also note from the attachment that lsmod doesn't list any devices (eth0 - eth3) using any of the 3 nic drivers?

Thanks!

[sshakthi]

run kudzu,

and use system-config-network(redhat/fedora) or netconfig to check the card is installed or not.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

What do you see in:
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices


e.g.
[yd@myserver devices]$ ll
total 48
-rw-r--r-- 3 root root 192 Jun 26 15:20 ifcfg-eth0
-rw-r--r-- 3 root root 182 Jun 26 15:20 ifcfg-eth1
-rw-r--r-- 3 root root 204 Jun 26 15:20 ifcfg-eth2
-rw-r--r-- 3 root root 207 Jun 26 15:20 ifcfg-eth3
-rw-r--r-- 3 root root 285 Jun 26 15:20 ifcfg-eth3:1
-rw-r--r-- 3 root root 70 Jun 26 15:20 route-eth3
[yd@myserver devices]$


revert
kind regards
yogeeraj

[Geert Van Pamel]

You could try the following commands:

lspci

modprobe -r eth0

modprobe -v eth0

cat /etc/modules.conf

cat /etc/modprobe.conf

mii-tool eth0

ethtool eth0

ifconfig eth0 ...

ifup eth0

dmesg |grep eth0

grep eth0 /var/log/messages

cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

cat ifcfg-eth0

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James Kierkland, et al.
2006, HP Professional Books
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[Geert Van Pamel]

I once had a problem on Fedora Core 6 with a not automatically unrecognized ethernet card.

ifup eth0
3c59x device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

I solved the problem with the following little startup script:

vi /etc/init.d/localnet
#!/bin/bash
echo $0 $* # Local network startup

modprobe -r eth0
modprobe -v eth0

Then I register this startup script

grep default /etc/inittab
...
id:5:initdefault:

cd /etc/rc5.d
ln -s ../init.d/localnet S10localnet

[Geert Van Pamel]

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