Praveen Kallakuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have a dell precision 360 with an Intel® PRO/1000 MT Gigabit6 > Ethernet LOM. i learned that e1000 is the driver and got it by > compiling kernel 2.4.22. i inserted aprop entries in > /etc/network/interfaces and in modutils/ and updated > modules.conf.
What exactly did you do? > when i try to bring up the interface, this message > appears on the console > > e1000: eth0 NIC Link is up 100Mbps full duplex > > without any obvious error message. but when i check ifconfig, i get > all the lines in a standard interface display except the line with the > IP address and mask. route is empty That sounds consistent with the state where you've installed a kernel driver for a network interface, but not explicitly assigned an IP address to it. Seeing the relevant fragment from /etc/network/interfaces would be helpful, I think. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
