VanLUG Email Archive
Brian Edmonds (brian@gweep.bc.ca)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 09:31:07 -0800
Chris Hunter <chunter@interchange.ubc.ca> writes:
> So I gather eth0 is not a device file. What is it?
It's a device name used by the networking interface in the kernel. It
neither needs nor gets an entry in /dev.
> What file would I investigate for modifying hardware resources (IRQ,
> ports, etc) used by my network card? fstab?
fstab? The filesystem table? No. Some network cards like my ISA 3Com
3C509s have a DOS config program, while my PCI Intel EtherExpress cards
choose their own IRQs at bootup, and some SMC Elite cards I've used have
jumpers. If your cards are ISA plug and play then you may be able to
use isapnp. But really, no one can really help you unless you provide
more information like what cards you really have, and what you're trying
to do, and why.
Minor rant: why do people file such lousy "bug reports"? Isn't it
obvious that better answers result in better information? Reports of
this kind of "it doesn't work" class are next to useless.
Brian.
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