adding network device

[nicksabatino]

Hi all,

I can see my network device when I use lspci:

[code]
00:11.0 Ethernet Controller: VMware Inc VMware High-Speed Virtual NIC [vmxnet] (rev 10)
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But when I do an ifconfig, only the loopback shows up? How do I assign this interface to eth0 with dhcp?

Thanks,

-Nick

EDIT:

I geuss I just need to know how to do this:

[url=http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-network-config-ethernet.html]http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-network-config-ethernet.html[/url]

in the command line

[pjwelsh]

Does running "netconfig" help set up the eth device?
If not, give us the output of "ifconfig -a" to see if the system even considers it an network device. Or run system-config-network from gui.
I think there is a GUI way to get the general hardware info (including "unknown" devices) also, but I'm old scholl command line (for servers) and can't remember.

[foxb]

[quote]
nicksabatino wrote:
Hi all,

I can see my network device when I use lspci:

[code]
00:11.0 Ethernet Controller: VMware Inc VMware High-Speed Virtual NIC [vmxnet] (rev 10)
[/code]

But when I do an ifconfig, only the loopback shows up? How do I assign this interface to eth0 with dhcp?

Thanks,

-Nick

EDIT:

I geuss I just need to know how to do this:

[url=http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-network-config-ethernet.html]http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-network-config-ethernet.html[/url]

in the command line[/quote]

If you running CentOS 4.4 as VMWARE server guest check your virtual machine settings it should be RHEL 4
Vmware emulates amd adapter...

[yyagol]

if you can see the device while runing [b]ifconfig -a[/b]
that mite be a driver problem . you can see if ther are any errors
regarding the net devices by runing [b]dmesg [/b]

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# dmesg |grep eth0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc00, 00:0d:61:64:71:1c, IRQ 225
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
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my device is a RealTek 8139 and the driver for this one is :

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# dmesg |grep Ethernet
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
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you can look for your driver by listing all available modules supported by CentOS
allready on the machine but you need to know witch 1 is for your device.

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# modprobe -l |grep 'drivers/net'
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or just google to find out what is your devices driver (module)