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Title: Integrating a Network Device

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Integrating a Network Device

Request

You'd like to integrate a network device into your system.

Procedure

This can be easily accomplished using YaST; under the following menu items:
System Administration -->  Integrate Hardware into System --> Configure Networking Device
When you have only one Network Device in your system you can set the Network type to eth0.

Select your Device from the list of Network Device types.

If you can't find your device among those listed it doesn't mean that your card is not supported. There are many devices that are compatible to those listed. You can check if this is the case in the technical information that came with the device. If this information is not clear or not included you can, in the case of PCI cards, let Linux help you check which cards are compatible.

With the command:

/sbin/lspci
you receive a list of all PCI devices in your system. If, for instance, the device
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)
is detected then your device can be addressed using the DEC Tulip Driver (in YaST DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI).
If however, the device above is listed but with the number 21142 or 21143 you should choose, in YaST, the DE425, DE434, DE435, DE450, DE500 Driver.

NE2000 compatible PCI cards appear, in the output of lspci, often as Realtek RTL 8029.

The rest of the network configuration can be done with YaST, under the menu items

System Administration --> Integrate Hardware into System --> Network base Configuration
After the configuration you can activate the network with the commands:
init 1
followed by
init 2
.

See also man init.

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Keywords: NETWORK, CARD, NIC, ETHERNET

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Categories: Network

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