Hi all,

Running SuSE 7.3
Ran into a snag trying to set up my ethernet card:

"Error fetching interface information: Device not found"

/sbin/lspci

01:05:0 Ethernet Controller: Realtek Semiconductor RTL-8029(AS)
01:09:0 Ethernet Controller: BROADCOM Corp: Unknown Device 4401 (rev01)

Only Realtek I see in the device module list is RTL8129/0139. I guess this is not a compatible driver.

Any suggestions for a networking ??

after a bit of googling it looks like that rtl-8029 chip is compatible w/the ne2000 module. the drivers for the broadcom card can be found here

http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php

also have a look at this

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...hp?product=273

good luck.

Well that solved my driver issue (Thanks), but I am back to where I started with a config issue.

Can't ping my Linux machine from my network. I am positive it is the not the physical connection, but I think it is the gw.

route -n

Destination 10.1.10.0
Gateway 0.0.0.0
Genmask 255.255.255.0
Flags U
Metric 0
Ref 0
Use 0
Iface eth0

I tried:

route add default gw ip.of.new.gateway

but that just adds another line to route -n, with the same info as above except the

Destination 0.0.0.0
Gateway 10.1.10.1
Flags UG

Any help would great.

Try "ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.0.0.1 up"

Of course, substitute your IP address for 10.0.0.2, your netmask for 255.255.255.0, and your gateway address for 10.0.0.1. You shouldn't need to manually add the default gateway route to your routing table -- that should appear automatically when you run this command.

Also, know that just by running this command it will not save -- you must edit your networking startup scripts to make the changes permament.

<edit>
--oops: just realized that gw is not a valid option.

Uh, which distro are you using?

<edit>
Duh, I need to learn how to read... SuSE 7.3... Sorry...

I will give it a shot.

"edit your networking startup scripts "

Where would I locate them in SuSE 7.3

Thanks much.

I'm not quite sure in SuSE 7.3. Do you have a directory "/etc/sysconfig"?

no i dont

ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.0.0.1 up

gw: Host name lookup failure

yes, I realized my mistake in my earlier post -- gw is not an option for ifconfig. I was thinking about the Windows command ipconfig. My mistake.

I wish I was more familiar with SuSE and where it places the network scripts. I'm searching right now. As soon as I find something, I'll let you know.

thanks for the help

Here is a link that might help:

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/1999/0...eshooting.html

Seems that if you have YaST installed that you can configure networking through it. Basically, these are the commands that you would have to run manually to get it to work:

ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
route add default gw 10.0.0.1

If you run those commands, your networking SHOULD be set up properly, if I'm not mistaken.