Problem with ping on myself

Hi.

Debian is new to me.

Í have got the 2.2r3 potato version with the 2.2.19pre17 Kernel.

That's a little bit old , i thought, and so i compiled the 2.4.17 Kernel.

Now I've got a problem with sending a ping on my self.

What I've done: First: I've insmod the modul for my network-card. (bash~> insmod 8139too.o)

and then I've set up the card: bash~> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

OK.

New the card is intalled.

But when I execute ifconfig there is just the card and no loopback-device.

Might this be the reason why I can't ping myself ???

If yes, then I would like to know how to set up an loopback device.

I think that I should have select it while chosing all the Kernel options with 'make menuconfig'

So I've checked again.

But there is no option named 'loopback device' or something similar, that I could chose in the menuconfig!

Is it named diffrently ???

Ok. thanks and sorry for my bad english ;-)

c ya

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