[Sussex] ubuntu network problem

[Tom Hinkley]

Ronan Chilvers wrote:

>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"
>>
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>>
>
>What's the output of dmesg?  Does it show the card being found?
>
>grep -i ethernet /var/log/messages
>
>??
>  
>
Nov 29 12:29:57 localhost kernel: [4294677.849000] sis900.c: v1.08.08 
Jan. 22 2005
Nov 29 12:29:57 localhost kernel: [4294677.850000] sis900: probe of 
0000:00:09.0 failed with error -16

Those are the bits I think are relevant (they only bits that mention 
sis900) if you need more, or the whole file, i can send it to you, but 
didnt think anyone would appreciate me mailing 1216 lines :o)

Thanks to evryone for their help so far.

/Tom