Linux newbie question - How to install ethernet card driver?

[Stealth]

I tried: /sbin/route add 192.168.123.152 dev eth0

but I got the message:

SIOCADDRT: Network is down

 

[Damaged]

Hmm, this has to be something quirky with Pogo. You say it's Mandrake though?

 

[Stealth]

Yes, it's Mandrake.

 

[Stealth]

Anyone have anymore suggestions?

 

[Blundar]

maybe a different distribution?

post the output of cat /proc/net/dev
reload the driver (rmmod / modprobe rtl8139)

ifconfig eth0 192.168.123.234 netmask 255.255.255.0
ping 192.168.123.234 (make sure you can ping yourself)
route add -net 192.167.123.0 eth0 (just to make sure)
ping 192.168.123.1 (ping the barricade)
route add default gw 192.168.123.1
traceroute -n 129.137.10.36
vi /etc/resolv.conf ,add nameservers
traceroute www.yahoo.com

 

[Stealth]

Blundar, here's what I got:

[root@localhost NetController]# cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0

[root@localhost /root]# route add -net 192.167.123.0 eth0
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

[root@localhost /root]# ping 192.167.123.1
PING 192.167.123.1 (192.167.123.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 192.167.123.1 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 192.167.123.1 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 192.167.123.1 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 192.167.123.1 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote 192.167.123.1 64 chars, ret=-1

--- 192.167.123.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss


[root@localhost /root]# route add default gw 192.168.123.1
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

[root@localhost /root]# traceroute -n 129.137.10.36
traceroute: Can't find any network interfaces



Should I just go ahead and install another distribution? I'll try just plain old Linux Mandrake, and not Pogo. Tell me what you guys think.

 

[Damaged]

Nah, I'll tell you what files to edit and then it should work. I just haven't had to do this in awhile. But bascially you should add an alias to /etc/modules.conf (or possibly conf.modules whichever it's name) that looks like:

alias eth0 rtl8139

Then, I think this is true in mandrake, you can edit /etc/sys-config/network and fill in the proper information there. Then you ought to be able to do something like /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop followed by the same thing execpt with start instead of stop and that should bring everything up. You can verify by doing a plain old ifconfig and you should see the interface there, then a route and you should see the route for the host interface at least in there.

 

[Damaged]

Oh yeah, there might also be a file in /etc/sys-config/network/ifcfg-eth0 you may want to look at...I think. I haven't messed with Mandrake/RH systems in awhile now so I may be off. And it might just be /etc/sysconfig.