Hi Adrian, On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Adrian Nims wrote: > I recompiled the kernel, I introduced an "append" line in lilo.conf in > order to burn in an ethernet device. At reboot, the sistem (debian) see the > ethernet board as eth0, everything seems OK but after boot, when i say > "ifconfig" it appears to me only the loopback device. > What must I do in order to make this ethernet device running and give it > an IP address ?
You shouldn't use append unless you need to get a second eth card working (and even so, I'm pretty sure it's only needed for pre-2.2.x kernels). The eth0 should than become the card with the lowest hardware address, the other would become eth1. As I said, you don't need this. Just remove the append from lilo.conf, run lilo (!!) and add your eth0 with its IP number and the like in /etc/network/interfaces. Then restart the networking daemon; /etc/init.d/networking stop|start You can also experiment by using the ifconfig program on the command line. Debian 2.2 differs a bit from 2.1, the ifconfig is a little different also. Check the man page. Good luck, -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
