network card

[Pieter_5]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[yufei_3]

dmesg to check if there is error on eth0

if not,perform ifconfig command

for example ifup eth0

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

Pieter,

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

10x,
Vitaly

[Hoefnix]

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