[H-GEN] Onboard network cards

[Alex Delaforce]

Hello Robert,
Thanks for answering. I have attached the output of:
dmesg - boot.message
interrupts - interrupts.message

I can't see much to do with the eth0. Generally there are a lot of
"fails" and "unable to"s . The file spends 16 lines telling me that
ide-scsi commands are unsupported with various errors in sectors 64 to
78??

Running /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.254.1 up, gives the following:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.254.1 up
SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied
Eth0: unknown interface: No such device
Eth0: unknown interface: No such device

Sorry to take so long but I have learned to day how to output to a file
and how to copy to a floppy. Really basic stuff but....

Thanks again.

Alex Delaforce
[alextdel at bigpond.net.au][dir.tech.ormistoncollege.com]
Phone (H) 07-3820 2210
Phone (W) 07-3821 8964

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On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Alex Delaforce wrote:

> The network doesn't connect. Eth 0 was failing but I increased the
wait
> time for eth0 to 20 seconds. This seemed to help the first time but
then
> changed from failing to backgrounding.

Hi Alex.  Could you post the output of /bin/dmesg following a boot.  In
particular the lines including eth0 and anything around them.

> Where should I be looking.  Should I forget the onboard NIC and get a
> PCI card instead? All help gratefully recieved

In principle it should operate the same, as long as they haven't used an
unsupported chipset, which is unlikely these days.

What happens if you type this command?

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.254.1 up

If this does not return an error then post the output of:

/sbin/ifconfig -a

and

cat /proc/interrupts.

This will give us a start.

Rob

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