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Re: [LI] ifconfig and eth0
Hi there,
I think I have some solution for you cos I faced the same problem myself.
Most likely "ifconfig" is not working properly cos linux is not detedting
your ethernet card so to make your Linux box see the card -type following at
the lilo prompt when you are booting
"lilo :linux ether=10,0x300,eth0" -remember no gaps in the
"ether=10,0x300,eth0".
this means that you are telling your linux system that there is a ethernet
card on IRQ 10 with a base address 0x300 and this interface is to reffered
as eth0 by the system.This will detect your card -then do "ifconfig eth0
<your IP address> netmask <your netmask> up". then do "route add -net <your
network address> netmask <your netmask address> eth0". That's it & your
ethernet card should be functional.
However you can add these two lines in the "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" :
" route add blah blah" & "ifconfig blah blah". This will do the rest for you
every time your boot your linux system. All above settings are typical &
should work for your network cards otherwise let us know the details of your
network card.
HTH
Pankaj Mathur
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 05:08:57PM +0530, linuxfan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I had read man infconfig and tried various options but nothing worked out
?? I am able to configure the card using the options passed by
conf.modules but i need solution by ifconfig only .
If by conf.modules you mean things like irq= and io= (IRQ and
Address) then ifconfig cannot do it. If you mean something else
let us know some mroe details like what is working now and what
you would like it to be (actual commands help!
HTH.
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