[plug] no eth0, but drivers load...

[Lucas van Staden]

Hi,

Thank you for the help from everyone.

My picture frame is now up and running again :)

http://www.dedmeet.com/hardware-projects-mainmenu-9/pictureframe-mainmenu-8.html

-Lucas


Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Lucas van Staden <lvs at dedmeet.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I have an old compaq evo N400 laptop, which I had turned into a
>> picture frame a few years back.  Today I decided to revamp it a bit,
>> (new frame, new install)
>>
>> Part of the process was to remove DSL and go with Debian R4.
>>
>> When booting, the system detects the onboard ethernet, and load the
>> e100 driver, which reports the card is fine (calls it eth0), and gives
>> the mac address, and irq however, there is no eth0 device available,
>> only lo.
>>     
>
> Does the eth0 device show up if you run 'ifconfig -a' as root?
>
> What turns up in dmesg after installing the e100 driver, or related to
> the Ethernet side of things?
>
> My guess is that it isn't configured by the system, so is present but
> down, although that is a pretty wild guess at this point.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
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