[SWLUG] Getting NTL broadband to work

[justin at discordia.org.uk]

On 30 Dec, Neil Jones wrote:
> On Monday 30 December 2002 03:21 
> /sbin/ifup eth0
> Delaying eth0 initialization.
> 
> 
>> I presume you have an ne2000 clone network card, you may need to check this
> 
> I probably don't. I changed this value and I can't quite remember what it was 
> It doesn't seem to be in the list provided .
> 
> Would this have been set when I first booted  linux and it detected the new
> card?
> 
> If so how do I get it back?
> 

It does sound rather like you have somehow changed the ethernet config,
Look in /etc/modules.conf for a line beginning 'alias eth0 ...'
that will tell you which driver its trying to use.

Take a look at the output of /sbin/lspci to see if the card is mentioned
in there. (If its a pci card that is)

a modern cheap 10/100 ether card is likely to be either an ne2k clone
(use the ne2k-pci driver) or a Realtek (a driver like 8139too) 

When you work out which driver is required, change the entry in
modules.conf and ifup the interface again, it should load the right
module then.  use lsmod to check if the drive is loaded, and dmesg to
see what debugging/info the driver printed.


Alternately you could try and trick the auto detection tools into
spotting the card again, but this may involve cumbersum procedures like
removing the card and rebooting a few times.