Re: [Astlinux-users] No network - NIC cards not recognised?

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

On 4/24/07, Marcus <li...@wo...> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007 23:15, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> >   trunk (will be 0.5) is based on 2.6.20 and will *probably* work
> > with your NIC cards.
>
> Okay, I'll try and see. It's odd because these NIC cards are several
> years old and work with 2.4.x Linux builds.
>
> >   Anyways, after loading 8139too, can you send the last few lines of
> > dmesg and the output of "ifconfig -a"?
>
> Will do. Should I send the output to this list?

  Sure!

> Another question. I tried 0.44 on a thin client with an onboard Realtek
> 8139 NIC. On this PC ifconfig does show eth0. However, there's no IP.
> I ran udhcpc and it said:
> /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script failed : no such file or directory.
> Then it probed with "sending discover...", but could not see the
> network.

  That's because you were running udhcpc manually, and the script for
it is in /etc/.  Try "service network restart".

> So I'm still stuck without an IP address. Is this the same problem? It
> seems related but slightly different because at least eth0 is up so
> that means the NIC driver must be working, right?
>
> Any suggestions, or is compiling trunk my only hope?
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>

Marcus,

   Grab 0.4.5 and remember the "service network restart" trick.

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner