ethernet hell on a 2.4.23 kernel

From: William (william_eakin_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: 30 Oct 2003 09:59:13 -0800

Hello,
I've recently installed Ark Linux(redhat based and my kernel is
2.4.23),
and I like a lot. The only problem is that the system doesn't interact
in some way with the ethernet card. I've tried to get as much info
as I can befor posting this, so . . . .

on this site
        http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Ethernet-HOWTO.html#ss1.2
I learned how to get some system info:

To find out what card is in my computer , as root I did "lspci", and I
got
        Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc Ethernet 100/10 MBit
(rev 31)

then I checked in "/etc/modules.conf" and the first line was
        alias eth0 dmfe
and on the site mentioned above it said that the driver for
Davicom was dmfe

so to see if the driver was loaded I did "lsmod | grep dmfe"
and I got back the output below
        dmfe 15713 1
        crc32 3740 0 [dmfe]

and the I did "modprobe eth0" but I got no reply

then as root I did "ifconfig -a" and under eth0 I saw
        
        Link encap:Ethernet Hwaddr 00:80:AD:77:95:5E
        inet addr: 192.168.1.55 Brast: 192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
        RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
        collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
        RX bytes:15612 (15.2 Kb) TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)
        Interupt:5 Base address:0xc00
        

and I also looked in the direcory
"/lib/modules/2.4.23-0.pre4.1ark/kernel/drivers/net/"
and I found the file "dmfe.O"
Isn't that the module(driver) that my ethernet card needs?

I'm pretty much out of ideas, what do I need to do next, where do I
need to look?
If anyone can help me resolve this I'll be very happy. Thanks.

William

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