ethernet hell

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: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31)

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 [dmfe]

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

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

ethernet driver ...........

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.

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

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

do this "dhcpcd eth0"

and see what happens...

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