[aclug-L] Re: NIC gone

[Wayne White <WWHITE1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:15 PM 02/06/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>What kind of network card do you have?

It is a linksys 10baseT card. It has worked well in this box with Mandrake6.1
prior to installing Open Linux and worked with Open Linux 3.2, until the
first 
reboot. I am using an identical card in another box under RedHat.

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>On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:51:46AM -0600, Wayne White wrote:
>> At 10:31 AM 02/06/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>> >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... :-)
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> Well, I wish it had. I added ne to /etc/modules/default, which appears to 
>> be the appropriate file in Caldera. No luck. 
>> 
>> Likewise, insmod and modprobe don't help either. When I run modprobe -l it
>> doesn't list any modules. insmod ne returns the message that there is no 
>> module by that name. I don't understand how it can work when installed,but
>> not be there after a reboot. It seems that the module would either have to
>> be there or in the kernel for it to work at all. 
>> 
>> Maybe I'll try recompiling the kernel.
>> 
>> Any other ideas?
>> 
>> Thanx,
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> >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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