> Sorry if their just typos but should ext0 be eth0? > -- > Cheers, > rinmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ryan, No need for apologies; it was late and part of the problem seems to be that I was typing ext0 (which should be eth0 as you pointed out.) However, even with eth0, dhclient is still not giving me an ip address. I tried it on my school's network and my own home network. As before, #modprobe natsemi lspci recognizes the card. But then, #ifconfig eth0 up gives me eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device #ifup eth0 gives me the same. #dhclient gives me eth0: autonegotiation did not complete in 4000 usec. eth0: link up. Afterward eth0 appears under #ifconfig but it has no ip address. #dhclient eth0 also gives me eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device I found an old posting from another user elsewhere on the internet (Lars Unin, SUBJECT: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x, Google Group: linux.debian.user, July 19, 2003) who had similar problems with a different ethernet card. Nobody could figure out what was wrong and someone suggested the card was not interacting correctly with the kernel. At linux-laptop.net a user with the exact same computer configured their ethernet card with: >> edit /etc/network/interfaces >> >> iface eth0 inet static >> address 192.168.0.2 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> >> # modprobe natsemi >> # ifup eth0 See http://www.worldofjon.com/artze4560us.html Working from their home network, this user seems to have had no problem, but clearly this kind of setup does not require the user to use dhclient to request an ip address, which seems to be where the problem occurs. I tried putting "natsemi" in the /etc/modules file so that the driver would load up when I startup the computer. This turned out to be a foolish thing to do because now the computer freezes when I start it up, which is consistent with what the user from linux-laptop.net wrote: >> Note: If you put "auto eth0" in the interfaces and let system do >> it at boot up it may lock up due to IRQ conflict with pcmcia. Finally, my ethernet card is the National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815. I have just found an updated driver at http://www.national.com/appinfo/networks/0,1804,829,00.html I'm going to try reinstalling Debian, downloading this driver with my housemate's Windows machine, burning it to cd, mounting the cd on my laptop, and then rebuilding my kernel with the appropriate driver. If you have any thoughts on easier ways to fix the problem, PLEASE LET ME KNOW as this is clearly a lot of work. Thanx a million, Forest -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
