missing eth? device

[jrv at mbunix.mitre.org (Jim Van Zandt)]

>I did the netconfig for setting up my IP, route and nameserver
>software stuff in LINUX.  However, upon bootup I get 
>the following messages:

...

>I have noticed that in my /dev directory I do not
>have any eth? devices.  Any advice?

You should not have /dev/eth*.  However, when you execute /sbin/ifconfig
(with no command line arguments), you should see your Ethernet interfaces
listed, something like this:

eth0      Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:F8:6F:B7
          inet addr:129.83.212.45  Bcast:129.83.212.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5368 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:2061 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          Interrupt:15 Base address:0x290 Memory:d0000-d4000 

If not, then check your boot messages.  The program "dmesg" dumps the
most recent 4KB or so of kernel messages, which will include the boot
messages if you have booted recently.  dmesg also apparently clears the
buffer, so you should probably dump its output into a file and then use
a pager:

	$dmesg >kernel-messages
	$less kernel-messages

My messages included this:

eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x280, 00 00 C0 F8 6F B7, IRQ 15 memory 0xd0000-0xd3fff.
smc-ultra.c:v1.12 1/18/95 Donald Becker (becker at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)

                        - Jim Van Zandt