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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: nitinm76@yahoo.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: eth0 link off
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:31:17 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48909755.3070205@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <233373.95650.qm@web50111.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Nitin Mahajan wrote:

> I have configured a Ethernet driver in linux-2.6.24.2 kernel version.
> The interface comes up and I can see the 'eth0' interface when i do
> 'ifconfig -a'.
Is the interface up?  Discover using 'ifconfig ethX | grep UP'

> However when I try to configure the network interface it always says
> 'eth0 link off'. Can some one please point me to the problem and tell
> me at what stage this message is coming from?
What does "configure" mean in this context ? What is the result of
'ethtool -t ethX' ?

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-30 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29  5:03 eth0 link off Nitin Mahajan
2008-07-30 16:31 ` Breno Leitao [this message]

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