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Re: There is no /dev/eth0...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joonwoo Nam)
Sun Mar 26 22:27:27 1995
From: Joonwoo Nam <nam@photon.pseudoslip.net>
To: jhlee@minkowski.etri.re.kr
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 00:02:46 -0500 (EST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: nam@risky.ecs.umass.edu
Reply-to: nam@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Joonwoo Nam)
>Hi.
>
>I bought a Intel EtherExpress card to attach my linux box to the network.
>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*.
>
>Please give me your tips to solve the problem. My kernel is 1.1.83.
>Thank you.
>
>jhlee@minkowski.etri.re.kr
>Jong-Hyeon Lee
Jong-Hyeon,
Contrary to what you have tried, the files in /dev/* are not used
in Linux. Please read through NET2-HOWTO and possiblly Ethernet-HOWTO.
All of your questions will be cleared from therein.
Best,
J.
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Joonwoo Nam nam@nazgul.ecs.umass.edu
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering work: 413-545-4762
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