hi friends!

i ve a debian 3.0 woody. i ve compiled the kernel 2.4.21. i think that i ve configured it well, but now i havent got my eth0 interface. if i do $ifconfig, it shows only the loopback interface and if i do $ifconifg eth0 it shows:
eth0: error fetching interface infoemation: device not found.
i ve got a Realteck RTL8139 PCI card and i think that i ve enabled it ok in the kernel config (but this is not sure 100%).
the /etc/hosts ans /etc/network/interfaces files are ok.

what can be wrong? is this a common problem? what can i do?

thanks and sorry for my poor english.
bye!

What happens if you do an ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 (or what ever you want the IP address to be)?

#ifconfig eth 172.26.0.4

SIOCSIFADDR: no such device
eth: ERROR while getting inertface flags: No sucho devices

bye

Sounds like you did not enable support for your card. To check in a console window cat /path/to/config_file | grep 8139.

$cat .config | grep 8139

#CONFIG_8139CP is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO = y
# CONFIG_8139TO_PIO is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER=y
CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y
# CONFIG_8139_ODL_RX_RESET is not set

thanks for your time

Have you checked to see if the card is actually recognized on boot. dmesg | grep eth0 or lspci -v in a console window.
[edit]Maybe even lsmod to make sure the module was loaded. Places to check for the modules /etc/modules or /etc/modutils/aliases. Also I have a card that uses the tulip module and I had to put an aliases (alias eth0 tulip) in the /etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules for the card to work when the module was loaded you may want to try this as well for your card.[/edit]

> #ifconfig eth 172.26.0.4

> SIOCSIFADDR: no such device
> eth: ERROR while getting inertface flags: No sucho devices

Was that a typo? You did try "ifconfig eth0 172.26.0.4" too, didn't you?

first, thanks for your help.

1.- dmesg | grep eth0
it shows nothing.

2.- lspci -v
it shows :
...

00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 00)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9

...

00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet LANCE] (rev 0)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1080 [size=32]
Memory at fd0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=32]


i dont understand this very well...

3.- lsmod

i havent got modules. this is the first or second time that i compile the kernel, and at the moment i preffer to built-in all in the kernel.
this may be the cause of my error?

in /etc/modules i ve got: af_packet

in /etc/modutils/aliases i ve gor nothing related with eth0.

4.- sorry, i wanted to say:
#ifconfig eth0 172.26.0.4

but this doesnt work and
#ifconfig eth .......
or #ifconfig eth1 ... neither

thanks and sorry for my poor english.
bye

pd: thanks for your help. i am seeing that the linux community is fantastic!

Well the card is there but it is not getting initialized during boot it looks like it is sharing an irq. Have you tried moving the card to another slot on the motherboard especially if it is in the slot next to the AGP. Compiling the module into the kernel should cause no problems.

Have you tried compiling the 2.4.21 with your working old .config making no changes and getting a working kernel then after this recompile removing the things you know you don't need and including support for your hardware this may be a better approach.

BTW your English is fine.

[edit]
I just noticed that you posted this in the members intro forum although double posting is discouraged you should think about posting this in another forum where more people will have the opportunity to respond to your problem. Maybe include a link to this thread as well.
[/edit]

Try to recompile the kernel with the eth0 driver as a module. I was not able to pass any options to a compiled in driver. The modules.conf file is for modules, not compiled in drivers. When you say "alias eth0 tulip" in the modules.conf file, the system looks for the tulip.o driver in the kernel directories, but when the driver is compiled in the kernel, tulip.o does not exist. If you must have compiled in drivers, then pass the options to the kernel at boot time in the GRUB file, or whatever other boot method used.

please try to use the correct forums, this is for saying "hello" only. moved to networking forums, thanks.

Hi friends!

finally, i ve compiled the 2.4.21 kernel and the eth0 interface works ok. i ve followed your advice Happytux and i ve compiled the 2.4.21 with my working old .config.

thanks.

Now, i ve got a problem with NVIDIA drives. I ve explained it in the General forum.

HappyTux,

I had a similar problem to serji when I installed Woody BF2.4. After the basic system install, I could not access apt-get sources during apt-get configuration. Another thread led me hear, and I tried the lspci -v command with the following results:

There is also a device that I'm not sure about:

The above isn't a typo, it just says "[OCHI])". Do you have any advice that might help me?

Thanks,

GT

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