Missing eth0

digity · 05-20-2005, 12:08 PM

I just installed Fedora Core 3 Linux and for some reason eth0 is missing. I did <ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.55 netmask 255.255.255.0> and got the following error message:

Code:

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device

Then I did <ifconfig -a> and eth0 doesn't show up, just lo and sit0.

I don't know what's wrong because I had Red Hat Linux 9 previously installed and eth0 was there. I'd imagine this shouldn't be happening since Fedora is newer.

Any ideas? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx in advance

P.S. - don't know what kind of card it is, but it's NE2000 compatiable and is a combo card (ethernet & coaxial). Again it worked perfectly in RH Linux 9 before wiping the HD clean and fresh installing Fedora.

david_ross · 05-20-2005, 12:28 PM

You probably don't have the relevant module loaded - can you post the output from:
lspci
lsmod

Sern · 05-20-2005, 12:36 PM

ifconfig eth0 up ?

digity · 05-20-2005, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by david_ross
You probably don't have the relevant module loaded - can you post the output from:
lspci
lsmod

lspci output:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/GX2 (rev 06)

lsmod output:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
md5                     4033  1 
ipv6                  232577  8 
parport_pc             24705  1 
lp                     11565  0 
parport                41737  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                24005  0 
i2c_dev                10433  0 
i2c_core               22081  1 i2c_dev
sunrpc                160421  1 
uhci_hcd               31449  0 
ns558                   5441  0 
gameport                4801  1 ns558
snd_sb16               12717  0 
snd_opl3_lib           11201  1 snd_sb16
snd_sb16_dsp           14913  1 snd_sb16
snd_pcm_oss            47609  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17217  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                97993  2 snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              29765  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9673  1 snd_pcm
snd_sb16_csp           23233  1 snd_sb16
snd_sb_common          18369  3 snd_sb16,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_sb16_csp
snd_hwdep               9413  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_sb16_csp
snd_mpu401_uart         8769  1 snd_sb16
snd_rawmidi            26725  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8137  2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd                    54053  13 snd_sb16,snd_opl3_lib,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_sb16_csp,snd_sb_common,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               9889  1 snd
floppy                 58609  0 
dm_snapshot            17029  0 
dm_zero                 2369  0 
dm_mirror              23341  2 
ext3                  116809  2 
jbd                    74969  1 ext3
dm_mod                 54741  6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

any ideas?

david_ross · 05-21-2005, 07:21 AM

It doesn't seem to show up in the lspci output. How is the card connected to the PC?

Is there any way you can read the chipset model number directly of the network card.

digity · 05-21-2005, 10:52 PM

It's a Linksys Ether16 LAN Card. It's ISA, not PCI and again it's a combo card (coaxial and ethernet) and again it worked fine in Red Hat Linux 9.

(i wiped the HD before installing Fedora, so it's not an upgrade)

any ideas?

david_ross · 05-22-2005, 10:25 AM

It looks like the de4x5 module is what you are looking for - try:
modprobe de4x5
ifconfig eth0

If that reports an error then post it along with "dmesg | tail".

digity · 05-22-2005, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by david_ross
It looks like the de4x5 module is what you are looking for - try:
modprobe de4x5
ifconfig eth0

If that reports an error then post it along with "dmesg | tail".

thanx so much for ya help so far.

"modprobe de4x5" seem to go thru successfully, but "ifconfig eth0" produced this error message:

Code:

eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

and then "dmesg | tail" produced this:

Code:

ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
i2c /dev entries driver
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 02369a00(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0

so, what does this mean? why didn't the fedora installation automatically pick up this card like rh linux 9 did?

what do i need to do now?

AlexEdwards · 06-15-2005, 06:37 PM

I'm having the same issue, the following may help :-

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg06848.html

Otherwise, may have to get a newer PCI card.

If anyone makes any progress - please let me know.

Cheers

Alex