Yet another Network Card Question

Louie55 · 09-30-2005, 01:34 PM

I have searched the forums (especially the Slackware Forums) for what to do when your network card is not being installed right, but have not found an answer.

I have tried all of the stuff I have read. I have done modprobe module after finding the module that is "supposed" to work with my network card, and it successfully loaded it. But, still no eth0. Netconfig will not probe for a network card either.

I am using Slackware 10.0. Kernel 2.4.26.

During install, I told it do use the bootdisk kernel (from the floppy) since that is what it recommended. Maybe that is where I messed up?? This is the first time I have every used Slackware, I have only used SuSE and RedHat before. This is also the first time I have ever had to mess with Linux Drivers since SuSE and Redhat are good at doing that automatically. So I know next to nothing about how driver modules work.

Here are some outputs: (These were all taken after I loaded the module)

lspci: (Excerpt)

Code:

00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. TRL-8029(AS)

lsmod:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
usbcore                59308   1 
ne2k-pci                4576   0 
8390                    6000   0  [ne2k-pci]
crc32                   2880   0  [8390]
ide-scsi                9328   0

ifconfig:

Code:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

route -n:

Code:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

The module that is supposed to loaded for the RealTek 8029 is the NE2000 module (ne2k-pci). According to http://www.scyld.com/ne2k_pci.html and http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/d...ETHERNET.CARDS

Here is what I did to load it:

I went to /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/net. Then I did gzip -d ne2k-pci.o.gz to uncompress it. Then, I did depmod -a because that's what a lot of people do, I don't know what it does?? Then, I did modprobe ne2k-pci and it loaded without error. Then, I added /sbin/modprobe ne2k-pci to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. But eth0 still does not show up and Netconfig still does not offer to probe for a network card. I even uninstalled, then reinstalled tcpip because another thread recommended it, but that did nothing. I have not rebooted the computer yet, would that make a difference?

Please help.

Thanks.

Louie

david_ross · 09-30-2005, 01:47 PM

Did you bring the device up:
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig

Louie55 · 09-30-2005, 02:06 PM

I GOT IT FIXED!! Well, there were a combination of 2 things that were causing it. I am sorry for wasting your time. 1. No, I did not bring it up, because the way all the other threads talked, it would come up on its own after installing the module. 2. (Man I feel stupid) I was using a straight through cable instead of a crossover to connect 2 computers together. After bringing the interface up, changing the cable, and issuing the dhcpcd command. My network card is now working!!!

Sorry for wasting your time on such a simple solution. But, being a Linux newbie, I thought I had tried everything. I guess there's always something you haven't tried.

Louie

david_ross · 09-30-2005, 02:11 PM

No problem, good to see you got it working.