how to bring up a plug-and-play Ethernet card in Linux?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

This is kind of a dumb question, but have you done an ifconfig to set up 
the device:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.73 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 
192.168.1.255 up


On 20 Mar 00, at 16:33, Seth Gordon wrote:

> (For those of you who've been tuned in for the past few months:
> Remember that old 486?  Well, after recompiling the kernel failed to
> get OpenBSD to recognize my modem, I gave up and installed Red Hat
> Linux 6.0, which led to a new problem, namely....)
> 
> I have an ancient machine (a 486SX that's about five years old)
> running Red Hat Linux, with plug-and-play modem and Ethernet cards.
> After much study of the Linux ISAPNP documentation, I've set up an
> /etc/isapnp.conf file that assigns appropriate port addresses and IRQs
> to those two cards.  In my /etc/rc.d/rc.local script, I use setserial
> to configure the serial device that the modem is attached to, and then
> I use insmod to load 8390.o and ne.o (the card is an NE2000 clone).
> 
> When I load ne.o, I get a message on the screen, acknowledging that
> the kernel recognizes the Ethernet card there.  However, if I type
> ifconfig, I still only see the lo (loopback) device, and no Ethernet.
> Likewise, there's no eth0 file under /dev.
> 
> What command have I left out that is preventing things from running?
> 
> --
> perl -le"for(@w=(q[dm='r 0rJaa,u0cksthe';dc=967150;dz=~s/d/substrdm,\
> (di+=dc%2?4:1)%=16,1ordi-2?'no':'Perl h'/e whiledc>>=1;printdz]))\
> {s/d/chr(36)/eg;eval;}#In Windows type this all on 1 line w/o '\'s"
> == seth gordon == sgordon at kenan.com == standard disclaimer ==
> == documentation group, kenan systems corp., cambridge, ma ==
> 
> 
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