I have a newly built debian sarge (stable woohoo) system. I have the built-in board NIC working, but I want my nice D-Link gigabit card running. It uses the sk98lin driver, which is installed, and which does run. modprobe -vv shows it in the list, but with a '0' on its line. i believe it is coming up as "sit0" in my network configs. it comes up in ifconfig as "UP RUNNING NOARP" and if i try to manually dhclient it i receive the standard info, except for "sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776

and then it just times itself out. in my googling i saw a few very complex/obscure posts saying to remove something or other to get this out, but im in over my head.

uname -r gives 2.6.8-2-386 if that will help at all

thank you for taking time out to help a linux newbie.


figured out i needed to add a line to the interfaces for the new card after googling to figure out that sit0 was not what i thought it was.

We don't delete threads like you reported to ask. We keep such things around so others who might have the same issue or similiar can search to find solutions from others experiences. So it's not a waste, if you post a question and find the answer before a reply, followup and let others know what you did to fix it.

Regards.

Then i suppose I should be more verbose in my explanation. sit0 is a tunnel connection for IPv4 to IPv6. My problem was simply resolved by adding a line to
/etc/network/interfaces

iface eth1 inet dhcp

which activated the second card which the previously mentioned modprobe -vv entry already indicated debian found. I simply needed to create an interface for the other card. I then replaced the mentions of my eth0 (the onboard card) and "ifdown eth0" to officially kill it. The final part was to remove the cable connected to the old port and buzz along on my merry gigabit-ethernet enabled way.