I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC motherboard. I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its built-in ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured on installation. There is no eth0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces, no eth0 entry displayed by ifconfig, no dhcpd.conf file is present, and dhcpd is not listed in inetd.conf.
I suspect that the problem is that the motherboard is so new that it's not supported in the 2.6.26 version of the kernel: when I looked at the Intel webpage relevant to the board, http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/dh55tc/sb/CS-031186.htm, it suggests that a LAN driver may be needed for Linux, and I infer from their table of information that this is more likely to be the case for kernel versions prior to about 2.6.31. So what I think I need to do is the following: 1. Download and install the LAN driver 2. Manually configure the system so that it recognizes the Ethernet tap 3. Add eth0 to /etc/network/interfaces 4. add a dhcpd.conf file 5. add dhcpd to inetd.conf. Does that sound about right, or is the reality simpler / less simple than that? Assuming I've got it right: how do I accomplish step 2? Thanks in advance, -PT
