[Gllug] HELP Network problem

[Ben Whyte]

I have just done an apt-get upgrade on my unstable system and it updated
the 2.6.16-1 kernel package.

I rebooted and the system came back up but didnt find a network connection.

As expected as I had to rebuild the driver for my card.

However rebuilding the driver and inserting it didnt work.  Even after
copying it to the right place in /lib/modules/.... and running a depmod.

So I ran an ifconfig and got a blank screen no info at all.

So I tried ifup lo which gives me

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
lo: Error While getting interface flags : No such device
lo: Error While getting interface flags : No such device
Failed to bring up lo

but if i modify my /etc/network/interfaces to say eth0 is inet loopback.

eth0 comes up fine.

However i can not bring up my network card as it complains that the device
doesnt exist despite the module inserting correctly.

Help.

Ben

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