Well, I'm not even sure what to say. I've been using Linux for over a year
now, used 4 distros, and installed it dozen of time, but I can't get my
eth0 to work at all on Red hat 6.2
It's a linksys, I belive, and it was auto-detected as a "rtl8139" (I can
see that in both linuxconf and if I cat /etc/conf.modules)
If I remember correctly that's exactly what SuSE 6.4 saw it as and it DOES
work on in SuSE.
I don't want to get onto a Red-Hat-is-bad band wagon, but this makes me
want to cry. I tried to use linuxconf through telnet to change the root
password on a remote server and that failed, too. Fortunately good ol'
"passwd" didn't fail.
Anyway, route -n shows 127.0.0.1 only.
All of the correct information still shows up in linuxconf after rebooting,
but none-the-less there's still no eth0 working.
Has anyone else had this problem? I know that Linsyscards are cheesy, put
honestly....I've had it working in both Stormix and Suse and Debian on this
very box.
if use linuxconf or netconfig, both go through the motions with no errors,
but nothing changes. However if I use ifconfig I get something like this:
[note that somehow it does manage to remember the host name :-)]
[root@bismuth]# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.70
SIOSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: no such device
[root@bismuth]#
What is going on here?
Also note that conf modules is _entirely_ composed of the following:
[root@bismuth]3 cat /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 rtl8139
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
[root@bismuth]#
In suse it's way longer then that!
I also notice that lsmod also shows _nothing_
If I do "modprobe rtl8139" I get:
modprobe: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep (no such file or
directory)
That Ain't no lie, because there _is_ no /lib/modules/2.2.14 - the only
thing in there is /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0
Should there be a symlink? What a blasted thing to have missing!
[root@bismuth]# depmod -a
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep for writing
Even the slightest clue would be greatly appreciated.
JW
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