Question: no eth0 found at boot

Question: no eth0 found at boot

Post by Jonathan Swab » Fri, 19 May 1995 04:00:00



For some reason my ethernet card is not being found at startup. I just
replaced a 1.something version of the kernel with 1.2.3 from Slackware.
Things worked before. When I run ifconfig eth0 it comes back with no device.
My ehternet card is an NE2000. As I said before the linux version I had
before did work. I have a feeling that I am missing something. Can
anyone help?

Thanks Jonathan Swaby

 
 
 

Question: no eth0 found at boot

Post by Michael Vergalle » Sat, 20 May 1995 04:00:00


Quote:>For some reason my ethernet card is not being found at startup. I just
>replaced a 1.something version of the kernel with 1.2.3 from Slackware.
>Things worked before. When I run ifconfig eth0 it comes back with no device.
>My ehternet card is an NE2000. As I said before the linux version I had
>before did work. I have a feeling that I am missing something. Can
>anyone help?

did you compile your kernel with support for the NE2000 card ?
if not you will have to recompile the kernel with suport for the NE2000 card
try
 cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper; make config; make dep ; make clean; make zlilo if you use lilo
as a bootmgr.

hope this helps

 
 
 

Question: no eth0 found at boot

Post by Steven Constanti » Sat, 20 May 1995 04:00:00


: >For some reason my ethernet card is not being found at startup. I just
: >replaced a 1.something version of the kernel with 1.2.3 from Slackware.
: >Things worked before. When I run ifconfig eth0 it comes back with no device.
: >My ehternet card is an NE2000. As I said before the linux version I had
: >before did work. I have a feeling that I am missing something. Can
: >anyone help?
: did you compile your kernel with support for the NE2000 card ?
: if not you will have to recompile the kernel with suport for the NE2000 card
: try
:  cd /usr/src/linux
: make mrproper; make config; make dep ; make clean; make zlilo if you use lilo
: as a bootmgr.

1.2.5 didn't find my WD 8 bit card or my NE1000 clone. 1.2.8 found the
WD card.

Just a thought - change kernel again.

: hope this helps

--

Regards,

Steve.
--

Steven Constantine:

  i-DX2-66 : 12Mb Ram : 946Mb HD: Soundblaster 16 : Creative CD-ROM

    .....sporting (boasting) a rather tasteful unix-thingie.....

 
 
 

1. How to find nos. of cyl in HD ?

Hi there

I am absolutely new to Linux. Infact, I haven't even installed it on my PC yet,
though, I've acquired all the necessary FAQs & HOWTOs and the Slackware (3.0).
While going thru the partitioning of HD using FIPS, I'm not able to figure out
the cylinders start,end for my different partitions. I have a Cyrix P66+ with
16MB RAM, 2.1GB IDE HD with WINDOWS95 on it and I am trying to have the
partitions as follows:

Partition_1   100 MB  for Linux native /  (root partition)
Partition_2   1.1 GB  for DOS
Partition_3   30  MB  for Linux swap
Partition_4   870 MB  for Linux native /usr

I understand that Linux root partition must start below 1024 or else
it will not boot thru LILO (is it OK to have it right in the beginning ?).

Now, how do I know how many cylinders are there in this HD ? The
"CMOS SETUP UTILITY" (pressing DEL during DOS boot up) displays :

Primary Master:

Options  Size   Cyls  Head  Precomp  Landz  Sector  Mode
--------------------------------------------------------
2(Y)     2112   1023   64      0      4091   63     LBA
1        2112   4092   16    65535    4091   63     Normal
3        2112   2046   32    65535    4091   63     Large

Is it correct to assume that all the three are same with
different formats ('cos Cyls*Heads=65472 for all). If so, then
which is the correct nos. of cylinders for my HD ?

I'm not sure how but I have a feeling that my HD has 4092 cylinders
(since DOS can't handle more that 1024, we don't see them)and if this
is correct, then is it correct to have following four primary
partitions.

partition   Begin   Start   End    Type
  1           1       1      200   Linux native / (100MB)
  2         201     201     2400   DOS (1.1 GB)
  3        2401    2401     2460   Linux swap (30MB)
  4        2461    2461     4092   Linux native /usr (870MB)

Is it do_able thru FIPS ?  I did try running FIPS and got the
following display but could not proceed much as I didn't know what
to make out of it.

Old partition         cylinder           New partition
   803.2MB              408                1208.8MB

Since my HD is 2.1GB, these numbers did not make much sense to me.
(I thought my HD was a single partition, all of which was being used
 in primary partition_1 for DOS+Windows95 !!)

I am sure this problem has already been addressed before  but I'd really
appreciate if someone cud repeat the solution.

Thanks
Nishi

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