how to make a PCI net card work on ICECUBE ?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Sep 29 17:58:34 EST 2005


In message <200509291156.AA2359564 at NARI-RELAYS.COM> you wrote:
> 
> I found out that the ICECUBE board could tftpboot via the PCI netcard if wire net to the card, but the board could not mount NFS via the card.
> 
> So i set the environment ethact to i82559#0 and saveenv , but the board still could not mount NFS via the card.During the booting-up ,there was nothing about eth1 shown .
...
> bash-2.05b# ifconfig eth1 198.87.102.218 up
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth1: unknown interface: No such device
> eth1: unknown interface: No such device 
> 
> where did i make mistakes ?

I guess you forgot to configure the correct driver for  your  network
card into your Linux kernel.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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