ethernet hell on a 2.4.23 kernel

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/doc...WTO.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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> and the I did "modprobe eth0" but I got no reply

This should have been modprobe <modulename> rather than the interface name.

> 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

I'm unclear on what your difficulty is. The output of /sbin/ifconfig is
showing that your ethernet card is activated with an IP address of
192.168.1.55. It is sending and receiving packets (albeit not many when
checked) at 100mbps without errors.

If you need the IP address to be something other than the current
assignment, you'll need to provide a static address assignment. And/or
disable your router's dhcp server.

JW