Loaded Dell laptop with RH9, it says "eth0: unknown interface: No such device"

Loaded dell laptop with RH9, network card is not working, tried all
commands "ifconfig eth0 up", I am getting this response fort all of
them, any idea, how to fix?.

eth0: unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0:unknown interface: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device

Thanks in advancer.

"GS" <globalswamy@hotmail.com> writes:

>Loaded dell laptop with RH9, network card is not working, tried all
>commands "ifconfig eth0 up", I am getting this response fort all of
>them, any idea, how to fix?.

>eth0: unknown interface: No such device
>SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>eth0:unknown interface: No such device
>SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device

It says that eth0 does not exist.
dmesg|less
and look for eth
Or perhaps you have not loaded the etehrnet driver.
modprobe e100
( or what4ever the driver for your ethernet card is)


>Thanks in advancer.

In comp.os.linux.networking GS <globalswamy@hotmail.com>:
> Loaded dell laptop with RH9, network card is not working, tried all

Why install an already EOL distro? Use something recent with
patches available. Fedora Core 5 is a good choice if you
want/like RH.

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On Sat, 13 May 2006 19:41:48 -0700, GS wrote:

> Loaded dell laptop with RH9, network card is not working, tried all
> commands "ifconfig eth0 up", I am getting this response fort all of them,
> any idea, how to fix?.
>
> eth0: unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0:unknown interface: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
>
> Thanks in advancer.

Good day.

I am not going to help you on the topic of your Ethernet interface.

But Instead I am going to help you (I wish) on your choice of operating
system.

Red Hat 9 "was" a fine product.The important word in this previous
sentence : "was".

RH9 is not developed anymore. Its security problems might get fixed.
which might be a bigger problem than a problem with your Ethernet card.

RH9 might not have support for your Ethernet laptop interface.

That being said,

Since you try to run a Red Hat product I'll look into that a bit more.

RedHat(RH) has two lines of current products :

One is called "Enterprise Linux"(EL), the other is "Fedora Core"(FC).

Fedora Core is a Prototype distribution. RH use it to test software and
technology for it's real commercial product. Once software is debugged and
well integrated, it is then ported over to RH EL.

FC is free, EL is not.

FC is on the bleeding edge, meaning lots of little bugs, lots of updates.
EL is rock solid. Few bugs few updates.

Fortunately for all of us, another organization took the RH EL product and
changed its cosmetic and a bit of its configuration.

Centos made available free what RedHat is selling at high price.
And since it's newer chances are it wil support your laptop interface.

Check what Centos is at this site :

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos


Well, I hope it help.

Or if you have to use RH9. Go to www.kernel.org and download the newest
kernel source. Compile the kernel with the correct drivers and install
it. If you don't know how to do this, this is a great time to learn.

Doing someting wrong with the kernel compile process can make your
system unusable so don't make your compiled kernel your default boot
kernel. Keep the old one for if something goes wrong. Secondly go to
www.tldp.org and get the kernel howto.