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["Jason Kooner" <jason.kooner AT comcast.net>]

Hello,

I installed Basiclinux 3.4 (2 floppies) on my old 486 100MHz with 48MB of ram. I typed

Quote:

/sbin/ifconfig

and I get

Quote:

inet addr:...
127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0.
...

So it looks like it doesn't recognize my hawking ethernet card. I mean, I should get something like 192.168.1.XXX
I typed

Quote:

cat /etc/rc.hd

and get:

Quote:

...
###_ACTIVATE ETHERNET_###
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
....

but that is the address of my router. I tried typing

Quote:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1

and I get

Quote:

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

Originally i had DSL 2.3 running by that was too slow. I just want to use my 486 as a print server and maybe an X terminal.
Do I need to load a driver for my ethernet card?

 

Thanks,

jkooner