ethernet hell

**wae** · 10-30-2003

Hello,
I've recently installed Ark Linux(redhat based and my kernel is 2.4.23),
and I like a lot. The only problem is that the system doesn't interact
in some way with the ethernet card. I've tried to get as much info
as I can befor posting this, so . . . .

on this site
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...WTO.html#ss1.2
I learned how to get some system info:

To find out what card is in my computer , as root I did "lspci", and I got

Code:

Ethernet controller&#58; Davicom Semiconductor, Inc Ethernet 100/10 MBit &#40;rev 31&#41;

then I checked in "/etc/modules.conf" and the first line was

Code:

alias eth0 dmfe

and on the site mentioned above it said that the driver for
Davicom was dmfe

so to see if the driver was loaded I did "lsmod | grep dmfe"
and I got back the output below

Code:

dmfe		15713	1
crc32		    3740     0 &#91;dmfe&#93;

and the I did "modprobe eth0" but I got no reply

then as root I did "ifconfig -a" and under eth0 I saw

Code:

Link encap&#58;Ethernet Hwaddr 00&#58;80&#58;AD&#58;77&#58;95&#58;5E
	inet addr&#58; 192.168.1.55 Brast&#58; 192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
	UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU&#58;1500 Metric&#58;1
	RX packets&#58;46 errors&#58;0 dropped&#58;0 overruns&#58;0 frame&#58;0
	TX packets&#58;8 errors&#58;0 dropped&#58;0 overruns&#58;0 carrier&#58;0
	collisions&#58;0 txqueuelen&#58;100
	RX bytes&#58;15612 &#40;15.2 Kb&#41; TX bytes&#58;168 &#40;168.0 b&#41;
	Interupt&#58;5 Base address&#58;0xc00

and I also looked in the direcory "/lib/modules/2.4.23-0.pre4.1ark/kernel/drivers/net/"
and I found the file "dmfe.O"
Isn't that the module(driver) that my ethernet card needs?

I'm pretty much out of ideas, what do I need to do next, where do I need to look?
If anyone can help me resolve this I'll be very happy. Thanks.

William

**genlee** · 10-31-2003

Looks like your nice is working. What exactly is the problem?

**Sriram** · 10-31-2003

U can make ur hardware to work in 2 ways. either u can embed its software within the kernel (
kernel compile time option as *) or u can compile it compile it as a module ( kernel compile time
option M ). If u compiled it as a module it will be listed in lsmod else if u have embedded it in the
kernel , then lsmod will not show it.
For ur case it was compiled within the kernel and so modprobe and lsmod didn't work.

**genlee** · 10-31-2003

Sriram, you should reread his post again. If he has dmfe.o, it was compiled as a module. Even lsmod shows it loaded.

**Hellmasker** · 11-02-2003

so what exactly doesnt work. can u ping other comps/they ping u. can u ssh into other comps/and they to u?

**knightmare** · 11-02-2003

do this "dhcpcd eth0"

and see what happens...

But it allready says you have a ip, what was the problem again?

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