On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 21:54, devotion wrote: > Hi. > I asked help some time ago and got no reply... trying again (sorry if > that unappropriate). > I have very recently installed the Debian 3.0r1 Linux cd, using > default kernel that comes with it, the 2.2.20idepci. > I am using adsl, whose modem is connected to my only NIC, a Realtek > 8139C (not C+, i see 8139C on the chip), and the realtek 8139C driver > (8139too.o) detected 2 network interfaces (eth0 and eth1), both on the > same IRQ (10). > When i boot, eth0 is brought up and eth1 stays down. > When i start pppoeconf, it searches for Access Concentrators on > "both" the nics, and finds it in the eth1 card. > pppoeconf saves my setup, and when i boot, eth0 is brought up, and > eth1 is also brought up. When ppp tries to use eth1, the box resets > (IRQ conflict?). > I therefore edited the ppp_on_boot script to bring eth0 down and > bring eth1 up, and now everything related to internet works fine in my > 2.2 kernel. > Problem is, I want to install the 2.4 kernel to support all my other > hardware. I installed the same driver, but now it only detects 1 > network interface card (which was expected at first). pppoeconf > detects the concentrator in eth0 (which was also expected) (it does > not detect it when i unplug the cable, so i assume its communicating > with the modem), but i am not getting any reply from my ISP's > authentication server (at 200.165.104.12) nor any DNS servers... > Does anyone what this is all about? > I have tried to: > - download the driver from the realtek site, compile it with the new > kernel, same result > - recompile the 2.2 kernel (debian package), but no 8139too.c within it > - recompile the 2.4 8139too.c with the 2.2 kernel includes, does not > compile > None of these attempts succeded. > Any help is very appreciated, thanks. > -- Fred
Are you sure it's a driver issue? What does the output of this command look like? dmesg |grep -n -B 3 -A 3 eth Also, what about /etc/network/interfaces , /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route ? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 10/14/1998 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
