Hi Doug, Yep, still no go. According to the laptop, eth0 does not exist, and therefore can't be used to connect to the network. When I compiled the kernel with network support enabled, I assumed that my laptop's NIC would be found when I booted into the new kernel... guess I was wrong, eh? *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/19/2004 at 10:17 PM Doug Sutherland wrote: >> I compiled the driver, 3c59x directly into the kernel. > > Doing a modprobe 3c59x returned, as I expected, a module not found error > >Well if you compiled it into the kernel then there is no module to probe, >so that's not surprising. However, the kernel should show some message at >boot when it finds the hardware. After booting do a dmesg | more and look >for the ethernet stuff. > > > running ifconfig eth0 as root tells me that the ethernet interface could > > not be open. Is this kernel bad for Dell laptops? > >Hmmm 3c59x is very common hardware. I'd be really surprised if you can't >make this work > >Does lspci show your ethernet card? >Try ifconfig eth0 down >then >ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 >then ifconfig eth0 >Still no go? > > -- Doug > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
