[aclug-L] Re: NIC gone

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You probably just need to run insmod or modprobe to insert the appropriate
module for the NIC.  You can make this happen every time you boot by editing
/etc/modules (that's what it is in Debian, at least, it's probably similar
in Caldera).  Simply put the name of the module on a line by itself in that
file.  For instance, for an NE2000 or compatible:


ne


Should do it... :-)


On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:24:06AM -0600, Wayne White wrote:
> Yesterday I installed Open Linux 2.3 on a spare machine. It installed fine
> and all was right with the world. This morning I shut it down do rearrange
> some cables. When it booted back up it couldn't initialize the eth0. I get
> the following two messages. "eth) unknown interface  no such device" and
> "eth0 initialization failed." Yesterday eth0 worked fine. The lights on
> both the NIC and my hub are on. The network cable is in place. I find no
> eth0 in the /dev directory, although I'm not sure that I should. 
> 
> I suspect that there was some temporary file left from the install that
> allowed the machine to see eth0 until the first reboot. That makes me think
> that there is probably a file somewhere that can be edited to make the
> machine recognize its eth0 again. Is that the case? I don't find any
> configuration utility in Open Linux that would make a change so that eth0
> would once again be seen. The machine seems to want to initialize eth0 but
> just can't find it. How would I tell it where to look?
> 
> This is all based on a novice's assumptions, so if I'm wrong about this
> stuff set me straight. I would appreciate any help I could get with this. I
> wanted to fool around with OL for a while, but need the network connection
> to work.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Wayne

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