On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:24:57AM -0800, Sean Staats wrote:
> I made sure that the ethernet card does get recognized at boot time and
> I now understand that eth0 is an interface and not a device so there
> won't be such a thing as /dev/eth0. I typed "ifconfig eth0 up" and got
> no error messages. I typed "ifconfig eth0" and it gave me a lot of
> information about the interface, but of course no IP is assigned to it.
> I'm wondering if maybe it is using the wrong broadcast address for a
> DHCP request to a WinNT DHCP server. Also, would a firewall cause the
> problem? I've configured the kernel to support firewalls, but I've
> never configured a firewall as I haven't learned about it yet. Here is
> what I've done to try to get DHCP to work...
> dhcpcd -h staats eth0
> dhcpcd -h staats -r eth0
> pump -i eth0 -h staats
>
> But in all cases, it timed out waiting for a response from a DHCP server.
> I appreciate all your ideas and suggestions.
If you configure the card by hand (give it an IP address), does it work?
The reason I ask is that the driver cannot know if it is using the wrong
IRQ line, you'll just never receive any packets.
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Steve Borho
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