Hi again
Thanks for the advice re installing. I'm going to try and put the
system together from the command line but I guess it's going to be
a long haul.
Regarding Plug and Pray.
I have a generic (read cheap) NE2000 compatible PnP NIC.
If I do a default network install I get something called lo as the NIC
device. What is lo (could it be loopback only ?)
I can ping localhost and, if I edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-
lo I can ping another ip address (e.g 148.197.200.3)
On startup device lo is initialised but device eth0 fails to start. In
the bios (AMIBIOS 1998) I have an item called 'Plug and Play
Aware O/S'. Setting this to no causes the system to start as
above. Setting this to yes makes no difference WRT the ethernet
card. The card seems to be 'working' as the correct light comes on
on the hub. Can anybody give me the definitive answer as to what
this field should read for Linux ?
I've tried to configure the card via /etc/sysconfig/network-
scripts/ifcfg-eth0. However I don't have a device called eth0 in /dev
cheers
Duncan L
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