Re: how to bring eth0 up

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

On Wed 14 Mar 01,  2:53 AM, Sourav Sen said: 
> 
> Hi,
> 	I have compiled 2.2.14 kernel and have booted the same. At the
> time of make xconfig, I could not turn the rtl8139 support option on(I
> don't know, it wasn't active).

xconfig isn't your friend.  use menuconfig.  AIUI, the xconfig maintainer is
a reluctant maintainer.

IIRC, some drivers weren't offered unless you enable an option -- i can't
remember exactly what the option was named, but it was something like

	"enable support for testing/beta drivers".

i know the rtl driver was one of the ones that you could enable only by
enable the "testing/beta" drivers.

did a quick search on .config and can't find it.  maybe the testing/beta
driver option was removed in 2.4?  you prolly still have it in the 2.2
kernel.

you also need to read the kernel howto.

> So after booting I compiled the rtl8139.c
> and loaded the module. But still I am getting network is unreachable
> message when I try to do ping. What shall I have to do to have my eth0 up 
> when I boot the new karnel? 

man ifconfig
man route

and you'll be set.

pete
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