[H-GEN] Onboard network cards

[Nikolai Lusan]

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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Alex Delaforce wrote:

> 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


This generally indicates that your kernel has no support for the device.
What can you tell us about your kernel? What can you tell us about the
chipset for the lan card?

Once you have found the chipset you should be able to determine what
supoprt there is. Most distributions these days have support for just
about everything (as modules) in their default kernel, you should be
able to load the appropriate module with insmod.


If you are unsure about the chipset for the lan card you could look at
the output of lspci or cat /proc/pci.


Nikolai

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