On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Chris Cowdery wrote:

> 
> In message <35878DC5.29337319@mpc-data.co.uk> you wrote:
> 
> I've upgraded from 1.2D as it happens, so I'd already changed the old 
> hostname.ne0 to ifconfig.ne0. Its contents are as follows:
> inet dibbler 0xffffff00
> (the computer is called dibbler).
> But none of the suggestions above have helped at all, so here's the snip
> from the startup messages:
> 
> hostname: dibbler
> configuring network interfaces: ne0ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS ne0: Device not configured.
> adding interface aliases:
That sounds like the card was not recognised. Does '/sbin/ifconfig -a'
list an ne0 interface ?
What is printed out as the kernel looks for podules? IIRC for the ne
driver you should get something like
ne0 at podulebus0 [ netslot 0 ]:
ne0: Etherlan 600A interface 
ne0: Ethernet address (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)
ne0: Using 10base2/BNC

Note this is from memory as dmesg contains nothing but com silo overflows
and the syslog containing it has long been rotated and cleaned up. The
only downside of a machine that's been up for 2 weeks :-).


Mike