Network card doesn't work..

First off I'm completely new to linux.

I'm running slackware 12.2 linux 2.6.27.7.
The network card is a 3com 590.
I have tried running netconfig to find the card doesn't work.
I went in and editing the line for the driver in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules restarted everything and that didn't seem to work at all.

The only error I see in bootup is
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: line 1: eth_up: command not found
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: line 2: eth_up: command not found
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: line 3: eth_up: command not found
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: line 4: eth_up: command not found

Scanpci comes up with
pcibus 0x0001 Cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: Vendor 0x1B7 device 0x5900
3com Corporation 3c590 10BaseT [Vortex]


Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

Welcome to the forums!

A bit late perhaps, but if you're still working on this...

What's the output of:

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/sbin/ifconfig -a

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Thanks for the reply, and the output is as follows

Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope: Host
Up Loopback running MTU: 16436 Metric: 1
RX Packets: 32 Errors: 0 Dropped: 0 Overruns: 0 Frame: 0
TX Packets: 32 Errors: 0 Dropped: 0 Overruns: 0 Carrier: 0
Collissions: 0 TX Queue: 0
RX Bytes: 2624 (2.5kib) TX Bytes 2621 (2.5kib)

Hmmm... you get some weird errors.

First, just making sure, you did do '/sbin/ifconfig -a', right? The '-a' is important.
The reason I ask is because it seems your card is not detected. And that is a problem. A weird problem. It should have been working.

Which brings us to the following. What did you do in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules? And what happened in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1?
Slackware doesn't have a command called 'eth_up', I believe (from memory) that that is a Debian command. It should not be called from /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1. Did anyone edit that script? Because from what a quick google taught me was that it can be a side effect of installing Gnome on Slackware :? No, I don't understand that either.


Anyway, the way it should work is

Code:

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ifconfig eth0 up
dhcpcd eth0

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If that doesn't work, then not all is lost. But it would be necessary to know what is causing all these errors.

Does this give anything useful?

Code:

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dmesg|grep eth

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Yes, I typed /sbin/ifconfig -a as you said. and the rc.inet1 script was never there since the initial install. Which this is still the fresh install, no alterations have been made.
In the rc.modules file, i just took out the # in front of the appropriate driver for the NIC I installed.

Alright anyways,
ipfconfig eth0 up turns up the following error
Error while getting interface flags: No such device

and dmesg|grep eth turns up
Driver 'st' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods

Again, thanks a million for your help.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by huzer1

and the rc.inet1 script was never there since the initial install.

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Aw, things should not be like that :eek:

Quote:

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Originally Posted by huzer1

In the rc.modules file, i just took out the # in front of the appropriate driver for the NIC I installed.

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Good that you tried to solve it that way, if you are completely new to Linux I think that is very good thinking indeed. But it should not have been necessary. Something somewhere went wrong big time.

I take it this machine you're installing Slack on is a test machine?

Would you care to do a reinstall, chose DHCP as network option (even if you use static) and rapport back here? I mean, this current install may be rescueable (<= that should be a word) but it's gonna be slow and painful ;)