How to build LAN drivers with no internet access

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>> What should I do now?
>
> The driver automatically loads the firmware, which in you case seems to be
> rtl8168e-3.fw. Just set an IP address for eth0 and ping away.
>

I cannot seem to add an IP address:

shelly at neptune:~$ ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:19712 (19.7 KB)  TX bytes:19712 (19.7 KB)

shelly at neptune:~$ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.110 netmask 255.255.255.0
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
shelly at neptune:~$ sudo route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0
SIOCADDRT: No such device
shelly at neptune:~$



Reference information from another computer on the LAN that gets its
address via DHCP:

 - saturn:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1f:c6:85:0c:8e
          inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe85:c8e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5873203 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4508575 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:8605892859 (8.6 GB)  TX bytes:353677967 (353.6 MB)
          Interrupt:42 Base address:0x2000
 - saturn:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
 - saturn:~$


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