Thanks , Could someone help in how to add network drivers for debian. The network card seems to be RTL8129.
Thanks and Regards Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You'll have to put a driver for your nic in /etc/modules. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 2 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a similar porblem. > I have upgraded it to 2.4.18 from the source code www.kernel.org. > And when I do ifconfig eth0, I get No such device. > Is there a way to do it ? > > Any help on this would be appreciated. > > Thanks and Regards > Deepak > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > "Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, I want to set up the route of my newly setup network. I have DEC > > 21143 chipsets and I have compiled/insmod the driver but am not sure > > if it works as I dont have the networking set up yet. I am working > > with Potato 2.2.19 kernel. > > > Do I need networking setup before I can setup 'route' ? > > You need to have the NICs bound to an ethernet device for route to > work. > > Generally, ifconfig should show you whether or not a NIC is noticed by > the kernel. You said that you insmod'ed them - did you receive any > report that this may have not worked while doing it? > > sockios.h: > /* Routing table calls. */ > #define SIOCADDRT 0x890B /* add routing table entry */ > #define SIOCDELRT 0x890C /* delete routing table entry */ > #define SIOCRTMSG 0x890D /* call to routing system */ > > The SIOCADDRT is what operation is reporting the error. > > When you do an ifconfig eth0, do you see anything? > > Regards, Eliizabeth > > > > The problem which I am having while setting up route is : route add > > -net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 SIOCADDRT : No such > > device > > > > route add default gw 192.168.2.1 eth0 Network unreachable > > > > 192.168.2.1 is my gateway to the world and all the computers on the > > LAN have to be assigned IP in the range of 192.168.2.* > > > > What does this error mean ( SIOCADDRT)? Thanks Kapil > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]