On Friday 02 June 2006 12:55 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, tom arnall wrote: > > I'm trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude c600. From > > information on the itnernet, the driver for the card is '3c59x'. I am > > able to load this with modprobe. But when I do 'ifconfig 3c59x eth0' I > > get 'eth0: Host name lookup failure'. My kernel is 2.6.9 installed via > > Knoppix. Ideas? > > You're confusing two steps. To install the driver, you need: > > modprobe 3c59x > > assuming the driver is available, not compiled into the kernel, and not > already installed. > > To configure the interface once the driver is installed, you use > > ifconfig eth0 > > but that will only print out the information on the interface; you need to > determine the appropriate parameters for your network and use them to set > it up. Eventually you should put these in /etc/network/interfaces to avoid > having to set it up maually each time. > when i do 'ifconfig eth0' i get 'eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found.'
is there a way to check if the card is in physically working condition? thanks, tom arnall -- thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
