At 06:54 AM 1/10/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Good morning all, > >I have just plugged a Netgear card into MDK 8.0 laptop for the first time. >The system automatically detected the card correctly. It then attempted >to modprobe using the correct driver. However the command fails. > > > executing: './network start eth0' > + usage: ifup > start cmd exited with status 1 > > > >When I try to run the ifup command it also fails when it cannot find a >eth0 device. I looked at /dev/eth0 but that dos not exist. Not having any >experiance with Linix PCMCIA, but I would normally use the following to bring >up an interface. > > ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.99 etc.. > >This does appear to work, I can ping the IP, but I do not have a network >cable at the moment to do a proper test. > >Is the above supposed to be...or is their a problem with my setup. >Searching on the web, most assume that the ifup command would work. > >Any suggestions (polite) would be appreciated.
Without your cable connection to an network, you are limited in what you can do. What does "ifconfig -a" display? Do you have Bcast, Mask set up? By looking at the appropriate logs, can you tell if there is an IRQ conflict? How about your DNS & FQDN entries (once you get your card hooked up to a network)? This is kind of a starting place for you... And you better check out the HOW TO for PCMCIA. It can get tricky.... J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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