"John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> continued on & finished the install & rebooted. I saw that
John> the kernel found & identified my NIC identifying it properly
John> as a Realtek 8139 based card. It did NOT load the module(
John> uses the 8139too) so I used insmod & loaded it. the kernel
John> acknowledged this but still no connection to the net.
John,
A couple of things to look into:
- If it does not load the module, how come it identifies the card?
Could you tell us what the specific message is?
- What does ifconfig show when you say "no connection to net"?
- What does your eth0 line in /etc/networks/interfaces look like?
- Any difference if you 'ifdown eth0' and then 'ifup eth0' again?
- Do you have af_packet in /etc/modules listed? Some DHCP clients need
the packet and net filters.
Finally, what 2.4 kernel are you using? If it is bf2.4 you should have
the 8139 drivers built in. I see in the kernel config:
CONFIG_8139CP=y
CONFIG_8139TOO=y
CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y
and also:
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
So, to have better control over some of this I would suggest not using
bf2.4 but apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{arch} instead.
Cheers!
Shyamal
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