What do you have in /etc/network/interfaces? -- Sincerely,
David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Deepak Subburam wrote: > Hello! > I am a new user to Debian (and Linux) and just compiled the 2.4.18 kernel > since the 2.2.20-compact kernel that I was using did not support sound or > my USB mouse. > > The new kernel works fine and my soundcard and USB mouse work OK! However, > my 3COM 3c509B card doesn't work and I can't connect to the internet. I've > tried both compiling with the 3c509 support in kernel and as a module - > both while seemingly loading the support correctly (no error messages > during bootup) end up not connecting to the internet. > > The one difference I did notice was that ifconfig does not produce the > second line below with my new setup: > > $ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:20:19:C8 > inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > ...... > The other lines seem to be the same. Anyone knows what could be the > problem? Thanks! I attach the entire output of ifconfig below for reference. > > Deepak Subburam > > With the old, working setup: > $ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:20:19:C8 > inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:9 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:316878 (309.4 KiB) TX bytes:26285 (25.6 KiB) > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300 > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 > RX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:4280 (4.1 KiB) TX bytes:4280 (4.1 KiB) > > and with the new, not working, setup: > $ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:20:19:C8 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:276 (276.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300 > 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:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:4020 (3.9 KiB) TX bytes:4020 (3.9 KiB) > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
