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Activate an Ethernet
Name: research_2004 Date: January 12, 2004 at 01:22:34 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: 32
Comment:
Hi All,
Can someone advice me that I tried to activate an ethernet device and I got the following message:
Name: 3Dave Date: January 12, 2004 at 07:20:04 Pacific
Reply:
Do you have more than one NIC? If not it should really be eth0 and not eth1. Sounds like it could also be trying to pick up an IP via DHCP. have you tried setting it statically? You don't say what distro you are using. They all come with different config tools but you can always use "ifconfig" and "route" to set it up manually.
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