Marc Sherman wrote: > > I just installed potato, and installed the NE2000 driver > (ne) for my ethernet card. I manually set the "option=..." > and "alias eth0 ne" lines in modules.conf, and it loads > correctly on boot (printing a success message to the console). > However, when I look in /dev, there is no /dev/eth0 device; > am I supposed to create this device manually? I looked at > the /dev/MAKEDEV script, but it doesn't mention eth0 at all. > Also, I have a second network card in the machine; should I > install this as eth1? > > Thanks, > - Marc
Hi, >From : http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag/node42.html , "As described in chapter-, the kernel accesses a device through a so-called interface. Interfaces offer an abstract set of functions that is the same across all types of hardware, such as sending or receiving a datagram. Interfaces are identified by means of names. These are names defined internally in the kernel, and are not device files in the /dev directory. Typical names are eth0, eth1, etc, for Ethernet interfaces. The assignment of interfaces to devices usually depends on the order in which devices are configured" For information concerning using the 2nd NIC : http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/multicard.html Yes, you will need to create an eth1 interface. Cheers, -- Howard Mann Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO http://www.newbielinux.com http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
