[Peeweelinux] Configuring the Ethernet port

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Did you include the network driver as module? If so, are you loading the 
module before configuring IP?

Adi

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Shawn Perkins wrote:

> Hi,
> My name is Shawn Perkins and I seem to be having problems with my
> Ethernet port on my advantech single board computer. Using pwlconfig, I
> rebuilt the kernel with the appropriate Ethernet driver, configured the
> system, and downloaded the whole ball of wax to my flash card. The
> system boots up and when I try to configure eth0 (ifconfig eth0
> 192.168.1.1) I get a message saying no such device. I do notice when the
> kernel is booting it configures a device called 'brg0' this can be
> configured with an IP, but does not seem to work for passing traffic.
> Does anyone have some ideas, it's probably something very simple I'm
> overlooking. I believe the onboard Ethernet chip is made by Realtek.
>  
> Also, on to a different topic, has anyone been able to get the Linksys
> USB 100M to work with PeeWee? It's a USB Ethernet adapter, and I believe
> it's using the Pegasus chipset. Once I get the onboard Ethernet to work,
> I'm going to attempt to get this guy up and running. Wish me luck :-)
>  
> Thanks for your help,
> Shawn
>