Hello everyone, I'm having some problems configuring my two NICs. I had RH 7.2 on my machine (specs below) for a while, I just did the standard text install and was prompted for the NIC settings. I had rp-pppoe set up and I could ping my LAN (my Win32 box below) and across the Internet.

Now, after a very troublesome re-install that crashed a few times, my NICs aren't showing up in ifconfig. Although I managed to set up PPPoE before, I'm very confused as to what's wrong.

Runnin kudzu -p lists both my NICs like this:

device: eth
driver: natsemi
desc: National Semi DP83810 10/100 ethernet
device ID: 0020

device: eth
driver: 3e59x
desc: 3Com corp 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
device ID: 9050

But ifconfig only lists lo. I can ping 127.0.0.1 no problem. ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 exist and I've tried manually setting them up but no luck!! Where do I go from here?

Thanks for your time

first you need to know if you have the modules loaded into the kernel/system

thats

lsmod

if there`s a modules named like oned of your drivers, great...

( if not try

modprobe -l | more

and try finding the necessary module/s...

once you found them

modprobe modulename )

try doing

ifconfig eth0

if sometring shows other than device not found, then you got your NIC working...

try doing

ifconfig eth0 up

and thats it...

Thank you!! Looks like they were all there after all, ifconfig modulenameup did it

You R wellcome!