James Polson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm completely new to Linux, so the solution to my problem > may be trivial to all of you experienced Debian Linux users > (so I hope!). > > I'm trying to install Debian Linux (mostly with success), but > I think that I'm having problems connecting with the ethernet > card in my computer. > > The symptoms are: > > (1) A message during booting that is something like "network is > unreachable" (I don't know what log file to look for to get the > exact wording). > > (2) When I type "ifconfig -a", I should see listings for two > interfaces, "lo" and "eth0", but the second one (the ethernet > one) is not there. > > (3) Not surprisingly, telnet, ftp, etc. can't be used. > > (4) In the /var/log/syslog file, there is a message: > > cardmgr[189]: starting, version is 3.0.5 > cardmgr[189]: no sockets found! > cardmgr[189]: exiting > > I think that this problem reported is related. > > Information about my system: > > (1) I have a D-Link DE 220 card. > > (2) I have the NC2000 driver in /lib/modules/2.0.36/net > This is the appropriate driver for the card, according > to the D-Link website. > > I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me with > this problem. Until it's fixed, I have to rely on Windows 95 > :( to connect to the internet. >
You need to configure eth0 and your cards kernel module (driver). >From Ethernet-HOWTO may find correct settings for the module. Then you have to put these setting to a file to /etc/modutils/<some-file> and run update-modules. You need to configure eth0 before. I am not an expert here, but configuration depends much on what you are trying to do. (For my cable modem I had to just install a debian package dhcpcd. If you are connecting to LAN or something, that's different.) Take a good look to Linux Networking-HOWTO (aka NET3-HOWTO): http://www.linux.com/howto/NET3-4-HOWTO.html Probably you can find this HOWTO from you Linux machine's /usr/doc/HOWTO directory too. NOTE: If you are completely new to Linux you should consider purhasing a good book, something like "Running Linux" from O'Reilly. Also read HOWTOs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WYSINWYG - What You See Is Never What You Get Esko Lehtonen esko dot lehtonen (a) pp dot htv dot fi
