[ale] ifconfig

[Joe Bayes]

I'm having some problems trying to get my Slackware system hooked up to
ethernet. I've got a 3c509b card, plug&play is disabled, and the card
is set to use the TP interface. However, I cannot access the network. 

It seems that when I run ifconfig in my rc.inet1, as follows:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} 

I get the following errors when I boot up:

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

I am reasonably sure that my address, gateway, broadcast, etc. are all
set correctly. 

When I just plain run:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0

from the command line, I get:

eth0: Unknown interface.

`man ifconfig` didn't yield anything useful. 

I have absosmurfly no idea what's going on here, so any help would be
appreciated. 

--joe