On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 07:57:58AM -0000, shatam bhattacharya wrote: > > Volla !! Its working !!!. Thanks a lot Ionut and others. I have installed the > new image and alsa modules, ran alsaconf, tuned with alsamixer and xmms is > working :-) > But in doing so some how the newly installed kernel doesnot get connected to > the net. with bf2.4 I was using a ADSL (DSL 502T )connection with a Realtek > card. I even tried to insert 8139too modules using modconf. It installed the > module. But the problem is eth0 is not being configured by dhcp using the > ADSL router. > Please have a look at my listing /proc/net/dev > > Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame > compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed > lo: 8248 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 8248 > 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 > eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > which shows eth being present. But ifconfig does not - > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:8248 (8.0 KiB) TX bytes:8248 (8.0 KiB) > > > Anyt clues ??? > Shatam >
Congratulations!! It may be that your driver is not loaded upon boot. And if it is not loaded, /etc/init.d/network has nothing to configure. Reason ? with 2.4.18 8139too might have been already compiled into the kernel, with 2.4.27 it is definitely a module. A quick way to check it: load 8139too by hand run ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 if ifconfig shows it, than you can go on with automating things: create /etc/modutils/net [1] with this line alias eth0 8139too and run update-modules. This will load 8139too when somebody (ifup) wants to access eth0. Cheers, Ionut [1] This is also that alsaconf does. Have a look at /etc/modutils/alsa -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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