> First, try 'ifconfig eth0'. If you get something then the
> device is at least present.
'eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found'
> If you don't get anything, then next step is
> to check that
> you have the correct modules loaded. Try a 'lsmod' command and see if
> anything familiar comes up.
I get lockd, sunrpc, unix come up.
> You can then use 'modconf' to
> load the modules or use 'insmod'.
> Once the modules are in you can do a
> '/etc/init.d/networking restart' to get the interfaces up
> easily.
Just did this to get at error messages ....
Reconfiguring network interfaces: eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
... it continues reporting no such device.
> If you still have nothing and it's and ISA card, you'll then need to
> check your
> isapnp.conf to see if everything is kosher there. If none of
> this works,
> read someone else's reply.
OK, cheers. It's a PCI card, so I will!
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> type lspci on command prompt
> it will give u r networkcard name
eepro100
> modprbe <card name>
> update-modules
ok, done.
> /etc/passwd
> at end of line
>
> +::::::/bin/bash
not sure what this means???
> later
> do networking restart
this worked, but now a ping results in 'Operation not permitted'
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> Post execution and output of the following commands:
>
> $ lsof
as I'm typing this by hand (no network connection - cannot E-Mail from box)
this is *way* too long to do by hand!
> $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <mac address>
inet addr:10.0.0.90 Bcast 10.0.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000
lo is as normal and can ping 127.0.0.1
> $ route
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 10.0.0.4 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
> Sounds like your network cards aren't installed or configured.
That's what it seems like to me, but it's weird as no-one has used it (I'm
the only one with root). It just stopped working.
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>try ifconfig eth0 up
yup, no difference.
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just to recap, when I ping I now get
'Operation not permitted'
I cannot ping from another machine on the network, so I deduce the
networking is not responding to requests. Maybe I've lost priveleges to
transmit packets?!
Cheers for the help so far,
Andy
