[nmglug] eth0

[a_kaluta]

Sam;
Thanks for the reply.
In /etc/network/interfaces. there is no eth1,
only iface eth0 inet dhcp
 and
 iface lo inet loopback ,
entering modprobe 8139  brings up-not found.
 Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Noble" <sam at laclinux.com>
To: "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <nmglug at nmglug.org>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [nmglug] eth0


> On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 21:35 -0700, a_kaluta wrote:
>> Dear Club Members;
>> Went to the cafe to use high speed internet.
>> Discovered no eth0 tried using ifup eth0, or dhclient,one message was no 
>> 776
>> (or some such).
>> Any ideas? Anthony
>
> Anthony,
> Is this some cafe that provides wired ethernet? Where you physically
> plug in an ethernet cable? That seems pretty unusual in this era of
> wireless. If you were trying to use wireless, then you were attempting
> to bring up the wrong device. In your case I think you wanted to bring
> up eth1 not eth0.
>
> $ iwconfig
>
> Will give excellent clues about which device is the wireless one, as all
> the other devices will be marked "no wireless extensions."
>
> If you really were trying to bring up the wired interface, then probably
> the driver was not loaded:
>
> # modprobe 8139too
>
> or maybe there's something wrong with your /etc/network/interfaces file.
> Permissions maybe?
>
> # chmod 644 /etc/network/interfaces
>
> good luck.
>
>
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