how to know if my nic is up a running in my etch box

htamayo · 02-29-2008, 07:58 PM

hi, I recently install debian etch, my question is: is there a command that can test if my nic is installed correctly, up, and running? My NIC is a VIA VT6103 10/100mbps LAN and my motherboard is a biostar m7viz.

best regards

jailbait · 02-29-2008, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by htamayo

hi, I recently install debian etch, my question is: is there a command that can test if my nic is installed correctly, up, and running? My NIC is a VIA VT6103 10/100mbps LAN and my motherboard is a biostar m7viz.

best regards

try:

lspci

lspci -v | less

ifconfig -a

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Steve Stites

farslayer · 02-29-2008, 11:37 PM

looks like that nic would use the via-rhine driver
lsmod | grep via-rhine to check if the module is loaded, in case the suggestions above don't yield positive results.

pliqui · 03-01-2008, 09:09 AM

Also you can log as root and use ifconfig to see if the card is active

Code:

debian:~# ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:f2:d7:8f:b1  
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:f2ff:fed7:8fb1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:39255453 errors:1 dropped:65 overruns:0 frame:1
          TX packets:36390166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1645486054 (1.5 GiB)  TX bytes:2352596781 (2.1 GiB)
          Interrupt:21 

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:f2:d7:9f:77  
          inet addr:10.0.0.2  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1011918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1011918 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:720996724 (687.5 MiB)  TX bytes:720996724 (687.5 MiB)

and if you want to bring up or down an interface use ifup or ifdown follow the name of the nic

Code:

ifup eth0
ifdown eth0