Hi all,

My NIC works fine, rtl8139; using Donald Becker's driver.

ifconfig also shows eth0 as well

My only problem is that I don't have a pointer file to "eth0" in /dev

I realised this problem while I was configuring Nagios 2.04b. I didn't have permission on eth0 to check dhcp and other services on my modem.

I am running Slackware 10.0

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Sam

You'll never find it in /dev directory as it is not managed by udev or devfs.
Neither any file permission is required or can be assigned....
I cannot understand what you want to do with your NIC and how that can relay to nagios. (as I don't know what is ...).
If you simply need to configure your ethernet card just run as root
netconfig
and follow instructions
You can assign a static IP address or by the DHCP client according to your needs.
If you want to check if the NIC is correctly reccognized by your system just type
dmesg | grep -i eth
and check the output
Hope this helps
Ciao