[Sussex] ubuntu network problem

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi Tom

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:25:17 +0000
Tom Hinkley <tomhinkley at gmail.com> wrote:

> ifconfig -a shows:
> 
> 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:789 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:789 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:69401 (67.7 KiB)  TX bytes:69401 (67.7 KiB)
> 
> sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 
>           NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> As you can see, ifconfig -a shows no eth0. ifconfig eth0 shows:
> "eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found"
> 

What's the output of dmesg?  Does it show the card being found?

grep -i ethernet /var/log/messages

??
-- 
Ronan
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