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Re: There is no /dev/eth0...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Paul Morrison)
Sat Mar 25 15:31:05 1995
From: jmorriso@bogomips.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
To: jhlee@minkowski.etri.re.kr (Jong-Hyeon Lee)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:58:05 -0800 (PST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9503240202.AA00465@minkowski.etri.re.kr> from "Jong-Hyeon Lee" at Mar 24, 95 11:02:29 am
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> Hi.
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> I bought a Intel EtherExpress card to attach my linux box to the network.
take it back to the store and get a supported ethernet card. SMC
Elite, Ultra or 3Com 509 for example. See the ethernet-howto file.
Even NE2000.
> To configure the network, I put the command ifconfig -a but there is only
> one interface lo. I cannot find eth0. There is no file with name /dev/eth*.
Linux doesn't use /dev/eth. There's an ALPHA driver for the
EtherExpress, you have to get the kernel sources and recompile them
with support for Intel.
The driver is supposedly OK on slow machines, but it's bad on
fast machines. I've used the EtherExpress and 486-33 and DX2 66 machines
and while it's usable, it is slow and hangs TCP connections. I think
even 8 bit cards are better than the EtherExpress.
Apparently they're not even very good under other operating systems.
