eth0 recognized but no hardware address

rickenbacherus · 05-11-2003, 04:18 PM

eth0 link encap:ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
broadcast multicast mtu:1500 metric:1
rx packets:0errors :0 dropped :0 overruns :0 frame :0
tx packets :0errors :0dropped :0overruns :0 carrier:0
collisions :0 txqueue :100
rx bytes :0 (0.0 b) tx bytes :0 (0.0 b)
interrupt :11 base addr :0xde00

lsmod tells me that the correct module (sis900) for this onboard NIC is loaded. How exactly did this come to be?

markus1982 · 05-11-2003, 05:25 PM

What does /etc/network/interfaces say ?

ifconfig · 05-12-2003, 01:09 AM

which version?

ifconfig · 05-12-2003, 01:11 AM

Try this:

lspci

Find this line:
Ethernet controller

And paste here what you see

masand · 05-12-2003, 05:37 AM

have u given the option og eht adress during installation as to get on its own,u can also setup this in the "setup" utility

rickenbacherus · 05-12-2003, 09:00 AM

Adding this line:

iface eth0 inet dhcp

to /etc/network/interfaces did the trick- thanks folks!

Still tho- I don't understand why it didn't have a hardware address.