Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Dec 1996 16:57:51 -0500 (EST) | From | Nathan Bryant <> | Subject | Re: ethernet drivers |
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On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, David Sherburne wrote:
> I am trying to set up my Linux box on a network. I recompiled the kernel > saying "yes" to network question and to several ethernet options (in 'make > config'). When I reboot the system and was expecting to see some new > drivers in /dev (like eth0, or eth1) but nothing like that there. Shouldn't > my ethernet (SMC) drivers be there?
Network drivers don't go in /dev. They are configured through the ifconfig program; see the manual pages ifconfig(8) and route(8), and read the NET-2-HOWTO.
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