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| Thread ID: 48511 | 2004-08-25 06:22:00 | Debian 3.0 Network Card issues | Growly (6) | Press F1 |
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| 265210 | 2004-08-25 06:22:00 | Hellooooooo once more, My 486 is happily running Debian 3.0 with a 3Com 3c589 10BaseT network card. Well, as far as the whole running out of memory issue isn't concerned. But the network card does have problems. If I use DHCP for allocation of IPs, then the card starts up fine, flips itself to 10BaseT, initialises the connection, grabs an IP, and works perfectly. If I however, switch it to static addressing, (because i need to know the IP is the same under any circumstance), it does nothing nearly as nice. I originally configured it to run as DHCP under the setup, but after looking around (yes, I have looked at google) for how to change it to static, I edited the /etc/network/interfaces file to read like this: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 It worked fine untill I restarted the machine. When it rebooted, I needed to ifconfig eth0 inet up, but then the IP address would not assign itself to the card. Also, when I did it this way, the card would not automatically flip to 10BaseT in startup. What could be wrong? Is it a configuration file? And on a side note, what does the "auto eth0" do? |
Growly (6) | ||
| 265211 | 2004-08-25 06:31:00 | "auto eth0" probably means to autodetect any ethernet card and assign it to eth0. I assume you're using the module driver ("lsmod"). If so, you can both set that module to be loaded and tell it to use the 10BaseT transceiver with a line like "alias eth0 3c589 xcvr=10TP"(or something like that). modinfo 3c589 will tell you what parameters are recognised by the module. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 265212 | 2004-08-25 06:32:00 | OOPs.., too busy checking the spelling ... that line would go in /etc/modules.conf. | Graham L (2) | ||
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