[SOLVED] VIA Rhine ethernet card under Slackware 13.1 wont work.

madsovenielsen · 03-02-2011, 05:40 AM

Hello

I have had some problems with a SATA DVD drive under installation of Slackware 12.2,

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...lation-865773/

So i tried 13.1 instead. That fixed the problem with the drive.

But now the ethernet card is not working

Its a VIA Rhine card, and it was recognized just fine under 12.2

The following command did nothing:

Code:

ifconfig eth0 up

I am getting no errors.

I have also tried using netconfig, no luck there either.

Any suggestions are very welcome.

/mads

hua · 03-02-2011, 07:29 AM

What is the output of ifconfig and ifconfig -a?
Sometimes your ethernet interface gets a different number eth2 for example.
It is a PCI card?
Try post the output of lspci. lspci -v should tell you more about the PCI devices.

madsovenielsen · 03-02-2011, 02:30 PM

No they are not PCI they are onboard. there is eth0 and eth1

I have no easy way of showing ifconfig -a because the machine is a server without a gui. and no net at the moment.
But the output of ifconfig -a is looking normal. both cards is showing up.

Any help ?

madsovenielsen · 03-02-2011, 03:09 PM

It was a router problem, Silly.

/mads