cant get eth0 online after new install

I am struggling a bit trying to get to the bottom of a networking
problem - I am fairly fresh to both Linux and iPAQ so I am a little out
of my depth just at present.
Situation: a Fresh and running Familiar install (.5.2) and a
successfully intimate installation process.
but on boot of intimate no network... network settings where detected by
the install process and duplication in ../network/interfaces

on ifup i get this:

ifdown eth0
SIOCDELRT: No such device
intimate:/etc/network# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

intimate:/etc/network# ifup eth0
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
intimate:/etc/network# ls -l /lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/modules.dep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 6 2002
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/modules.dep -> /var/run/modules.dep
intimate:/etc/network# ls -l /var/run
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Nov 22 05:36 inetd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Nov 22 05:36 sshd2_22.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Jun 7 2002 syslogd.pid
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 1920 Nov 22 05:44 utmp
intimate:/etc/network# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.

# The loopback interface
# automatically added when upgrading
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# Network settings autodetected by the intimate install process
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
          address 192.168.0.3
          netmask 255.255.255.0
          network 192.168.0.0
          broadcast 192.168.0.255
          gateway 192.168.0.254

Am I supposed to be trying figure out the missing /var/run/moduels.dep
or the SIO_messgase or something other ???

TIA

Chris B
Received on Mon Jun 10 2002 - 11:14:15 EDT