[S.u.S.E. Linux] Network - Setup
Hello, I am new to SuSE. I installed SuSE on my machine and used YAST to configure the network. After I restarted the system, the "ifconfig" command, shows the loopback device and dummy device. It did not find the eth0 device. How do I get the system to find the eth0 device? Thank you. Subba Rao subb3@ibm.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Subba Rao wrote:
Hello,
I am new to SuSE. I installed SuSE on my machine and used YAST to configure the network. After I restarted the system, the "ifconfig" command, shows the loopback device and dummy device. It did not find the eth0 device. How do I get the system to find the eth0 device?
Thank you.
Subba Rao subb3@ibm.net
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I am guessing that you do not have your network card loaded. Have you recompiled the kernel to include support for your card?? If you have modular support for your card, you can type: lsmod to see what modules are loaded. If the card is not loaded, you can load it manually by typing: insmod [module_name_here] I use: insmod /lib/modules/2.0.33/net/3c509.o then use ifconfig to down the dummy0 network and bring up the eth0 ifconfig dummy0 down ifconfig eth0 up hope that helps mc - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
To bring 'dummy' down, go into /etc/rc.config and change the line for 'dummy' so that during boot up 'dummy' is not even brought up. While you are at it, you may configure the settings for the ethernet card in the same file as well. On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Michael Clark wrote:
Subba Rao wrote:
Hello,
I am new to SuSE. I installed SuSE on my machine and used YAST to configure the network. After I restarted the system, the "ifconfig" command, shows the loopback device and dummy device. It did not find the eth0 device. How do I get the system to find the eth0 device?
Thank you.
Subba Rao subb3@ibm.net
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I am guessing that you do not have your network card loaded. Have you recompiled the kernel to include support for your card?? If you have modular support for your card, you can type:
lsmod
to see what modules are loaded. If the card is not loaded, you can load it manually by typing:
insmod [module_name_here] I use: insmod /lib/modules/2.0.33/net/3c509.o
then use ifconfig to down the dummy0 network and bring up the eth0
ifconfig dummy0 down ifconfig eth0 up
hope that helps
mc
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C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
To bring 'dummy' down, go into /etc/rc.config and change the line for 'dummy' so that during boot up 'dummy' is not even brought up. While you are at it, you may configure the settings for the ethernet card in the same file as well.
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Michael Clark wrote:
Subba Rao wrote:
Hello,
I am new to SuSE. I installed SuSE on my machine and used YAST to configure the network. After I restarted the system, the "ifconfig" command, shows the loopback device and dummy device. It did not find the eth0 device. How do I get the system to find the eth0 device?
Thank you.
Subba Rao
I suggest using YaST i.s.o of editing /etc/rc.config directly. Most of the system administration can be done using YaST. It takes a little while getting used to it. It also updates relevant config files. If you find suggestions for the tool then send email to feedback@suse.de. HTH Arun Khan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
YaST does have its limitations. I find it not as easy to edit the rc.config files through YaST because I have to browse through it item by item in that small little window. That's one of the reasons why I am editing the rc.config file directly. Aside from that, I am using a cable modem connection that uses DHCP for IP assignment. So, I have to make the machine bring up eth0, but don't assign it an IP during boot up. Right after the card has been brought up, I will get dhcpcd to get it an IP. This way, going in to rc.config to delete the entries for IPADDR_0 and IFCONFIG_0 while keeping NETDEV_0 is a lot easier than using YaST. C. J. Tan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Tan E-mail: cjtan@acm.org Telephone: 1-403-220-8038 tanc@cuug.ab.ca 1-403-606-4257 URL: <A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc"><A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A">http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc Facsimile: 1-403-284-1980 "An engineer made programmer is one who attempts to solve a problem, A programmer made engineer is one who knows how to solve a problem." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Arun Khan wrote:
C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
To bring 'dummy' down, go into /etc/rc.config and change the line for 'dummy' so that during boot up 'dummy' is not even brought up. While you are at it, you may configure the settings for the ethernet card in the same file as well.
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Michael Clark wrote:
Subba Rao wrote:
Hello,
I am new to SuSE. I installed SuSE on my machine and used YAST to configure the network. After I restarted the system, the "ifconfig" command, shows the loopback device and dummy device. It did not find the eth0 device. How do I get the system to find the eth0 device?
Thank you.
Subba Rao
I suggest using YaST i.s.o of editing /etc/rc.config directly. Most of the system administration can be done using YaST. It takes a little while getting used to it. It also updates relevant config files. If you find suggestions for the tool then send email to feedback@suse.de.
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If I disable dummy device in rc.config, can I have do dial-up connections? Will it effect my PPP setup and PPP connections? Also, Can I have dummy device AND ethernet device enabled? Thank you. Subba Rao subb3@ibm.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Subba Rao wrote:
If I disable dummy device in rc.config, can I have do dial-up connections? Will it
Yes you can. The dummy device is only used to have any network device. However you can have as much devices as you want (not true, the limit is 256?) at the same time.
effect my PPP setup and PPP connections?
no.
Also, Can I have dummy device AND ethernet device enabled?
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