Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:12:55PM -0500, Forest Fisher wrote: > I just installed Debian (Woody) on my new laptop with > the 2.4.18 kernel. My laptop is a hp pavilion > ze4560us and the ethernet card is National > Semiconductor Corporation DP83815. I set the > ethernet up by editing /etc/network/interfaces, > changing the first line to auto lo eth0 and adding, > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > Then, > > #modprobe natsemi > > lspci recognizes the card. But then, > > #ifconfig ext0 up > > gives me > > eth00: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such > device > > #ifup ext0 > > gives me > > Ignoring unkown interface ext0=ext0 > > when I try to run dhclient I get similar results. > For example, > > #dhclient > > gives me > > eth0: autonegotiation did not complete in 4000 usec. > eth0: link up. > > afterward ifconfig shows eth0 but there is no IP. > Again, > > #dhclient > > gives me > > "ext0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such > device > > I also tried replacing the line > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > with > > iface_eth0="dhcp" > > at the suggestion of a friend, but this gives me the > same results. Can anyone help please? > > Sincerely, > Forest Fisher >
Sorry if their just typos but should ext0 be eth0? -- Cheers, rinmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
