[97848] in RedHat Linux List
Re: eth0 stopped working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Thu Nov 5 12:02:43 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:01:53 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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David_M_Morgan@rsh.net wrote:
>
> > Dmesg doesn't show anything with eth0 delaying loading.
> >
> > This is a bit time critical since I have work to do by Wednesday that
> > requires telnetting ....
>
> Ok, my question to you is this did you recompile the kernel? If so is your
> card a module, is the module loaded? I had this problem once where for some
> strange reason the link to my modules (the default RH rc.sysinit does that
> ln -s $uname preferred thing) just wouldn't take so I just changed the else
> line to point to the 2.0.35 (that was the current running kernel)
> directory. After that no problems, though I have to ask what did you
> update?
I have to second this, the majority of probs that I've discovered with
not working but 'supported' ethernet cards is simply the module wasn't
loaded. Do a /sbin/lsmod along with a /sbin/ifconfig.
J
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