[SWLUG] Dell disappointment & no networking!

[Mark Summerfield]

On 2010-06-10, Steve Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> > I have absolutely no idea even where to start with this... any
> > suggestions welcome:-)
> 
> First port of call is to use lspci to identify the network chipset and
> then google for information on getting it to work with linux.

I used lspci and got this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated 
Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics 
Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition 
Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 
(rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 
(rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 
(rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI 
Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI 
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4353 (rev 01)
0d:00.0 Class ff00: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5208 (rev 01)

A couple of people said use Google. The thing is I bought this machine
with Ubuntu preinstalled because I find sysadmin stuff v. difficult. But
*@!? Dell didn't honour the contract and nothing was preinstalled, so
now I'm trying to fix it---or I guess it'll have to go back. I don't
even know where to start & I have limited time (I'm supposed to be doing
some work today), so it is v. frustrating!

If I could just get the wired network going that would be something...

Thanks!

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