etho0 [DOWN]??

[Martial]

I am trying to get a network connection on an old laptop to which I recently installed Lunar using the 1.5.1. ISO and the default (normal) kernel. When I go "lnet", option 0 says [DOWN] Edit device eth0. What does this mean, [DOWN]?

This machine has an Etherfast PCMCIA card for which the driver is pcnet_cs. lnet seems to know that. I requested dhcpcd, which later fails silently when I try to run it. When I go insmod pcnet_cs, it comes back with with "unresolved symbols", e.g. ei_open_Rf208657c, ei_interrupt_Rb93d8fa5 and a few others.

ifconfig shows only lo, no eth0.

After booting lunar, the PCMCIA card shows a green "act" light, an amber "10/100" light, and a blinking green "link" light.

[RedKennedy]

I had some trouble with lnet getting dhcp to work the first time. If I were you I would just try dhcpcd eth0 manually. I prefer dhclient over dhcpcd, but that's just me.
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[Martial]

But since this expression "[DOWN]" is printed by lnet, presumably it signifies something? Maybe I can find lnet and try to figure out what it's doing, but it would be nice if someone here knew.

[dveatch]

[sofar]

either:

* the cable is unplugged
* there is nothing working on the other side of the cable
* the device has not been turned on by `ifconfig`

to *properly* turn on the default automatically, enable the network script at boot with `lservices` (don't use chkconfig - the lunar tools remember only your lservices setting or when you run `lin -r`!). Also you can re-enable networking automatically by doing `lin -r net-tools` and answering 'y' when asked to start 'network' at boot time.