What are the contents of /etc/network/interfaces?
jim ray
Lead System Engineer
LinuxMall.com
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 04:44:09PM -0400, Ralph Winslow wrote:
> I'm still unable to see my DSL modem via my ethernet card, a 3Com
> 3c905c Etherlink PCI. I believe this is because my OS can't see
> the card. I think the relevant part of dmesg is:
>
> 3c59x.c 16Aug00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xdc00, 00:01:02:45:d2:f9, IRQ 5
> 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
> MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
> Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
>
> I have heard both that 3c59x.o will handle this card, and that I must use
> use 3c90x.o as the kernel module. I have both, but lsmod shows that
> 3c59x is loaded just after boot, and rmmod 3c59x reports:
>
> 3c59x: Device or resource busy
>
> so I'm not able to try the 3c90x module. Also ifconfig reports:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:02:45:D2:F9
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0xdc00
>
> so maybe the card is fine and I need do domething to make pppoe start.
> I've tried
>
> root@rjw# /etc/init.d/network start
> SIOCADDRT: File exists
> root@rjw# /etc/init.d/networking start
> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
> Configuring network interfaces: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl4
> Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
>
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
>
> ppp0: unknown hardware address type 512
> ppp0: unknown hardware address type 512
> socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are
>defined in your kernel configuration!
> exiting.
> done.
>
> I'm not sure what either message signifies, but the second looks discouraging.
> Can anyone help? TIA
>
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