Donn Washburn wrote:

Hey Groups:

I have a complete lack of understanding what is wrong with my "eth0" network on 2 machines.

First I always set linuxrc up with a network card (ne = io=0x6100 irq=11) and it seems that SuSE finds that card during normal bootup. So I assume that it is loaded in the kernel. It shows up on the bootup messages just after mounting the hard drive partitions along with Donald Beckers address saying it was found.

Problem is if I do a "ifconfig /dev/eth0 192.168.##.##" I get a error "SIOCSIFADDR: No such device" Checking my two machines for "l /dev/et*" - > "No such file or directory". It appears that SuSE didn't make the device drivers (ex. mknod /dev/eth# # #).

As I recall from version 5.0 SuSE (Linuxrc and Yast) created the device driver. "find" is unable to locate it. It is in "/etc/conf.modules" as "alias eth0 ne" which is "options ne io=0x6100 irq=11".

I can add it using mknod but I am not sure of the major/minor number ( I also think of it as a block device)

Any suggestions? How and/or where did I go wrong?

Hi, for the network interfaces no pseudo files are needed in /dev. Do a 'cat /proc/net/dev' to see which network devices are available: Goldengate:/root # cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier lo:8010044 0 0 0 0 8010044 0 0 0 0 0 cisco0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 cisco1:25116439 0 6088 0 0 29572731 0 0 0 0 0 cisco1:1:25078475 0 0 0 0 29541906 0 0 0 0 0 cisco1:2: 8177 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 cisco1:3: 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 cisco1:4: 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 eth0:1367773 0 0 0 0 1491726 0 0 0 12217 1 eth0:1: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 You see I have 3 physical devices (cisco0, cisco1 and eth0), one loopback (lo) and several virtual devices on top of cisco1 and eth0. Don't use ifconfig with '/dev/eth*', use i.e. 'ifconfig eth0' to see or set the device parameters. Ciao, BB -- Bodo Bauer S.u.S.E., LLC fon +1-510-835 7873 bb@suse.de 458 Santa Clara Avenue fax +1-510-835 7875 <A HREF="http://www.suse.com"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com</A">http://www.suse.com Oakland CA, 94610 USA -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e