Vanilla 3.18.33: ifconfig is empty

Hello,

I'm running 3.18.33 kernel (vanilla) with busy box.
According to the boot log (dmesg) the kernel finds:
Intel e1000e
Intel fm10k
It allocates: eth0, eth1 to the fm10k.

How can I cause the kernel that eth2 (for example) will be e1000e ?
Currently, running ifconfig gives an empty list.

Thank you,
Z.V

Try ifconfig -a.

Hi Emerson,

Thank you for your reply.
Running ifconfig -a gave a list.

But I see that eth0, eth1 are not there.

During the linux boot I see that:
e100
e1000
e1000e
Are recognized.

Why I can not see them in the ifconfig list ?

Best regards,
Z.V

ifconfig -a gave a list, but without eth0 and eth1 ?

You can run lspci -k to see if the driver is loaded. When the driver is loaded then you need to configure your interfaces. You chose not to reveal what Linux distro you are using, thus nobody can tell you how. You can run something like this:

ifconfig eth0 xx.xx.xx.xx netmask=255.255.255.0 up

to assign an IP address, but this will not survive reboot.

Hello,

The cause to the problem was that the HW is Intel's I210 which is not in the kernel.

I downloaded the driver, compiled it and inserted it with: insmod igb.ko

After this step, 4 eth were added to the "ifconfig -a" list.

I'm not using a distro. Just pure vanilla with busybox.

Thank you,
Z.V