Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:

On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote:
> First off, I am a newbie in Linux and
> networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both
> have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other
> sarge. The one with sarge connected to the Internet with dial-up
> modem. Both works perfectly. I want to hook the two computers
> together to be able to share printers, scanners and the Internet.
> Because I have little understanding about setting up a LAN, I am
> following a tutorial, I found on the Internet. So far this is what I
> have done. I bought a crossover wire and hooked up the computers. I
> tested the one with ubuntu installed with the "ifconfig eth0" command
> and was confirmed that the eth0 works. The one with sarge installed
> however doesn't recognize the eth0 interface. I get the following
> message: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
>
Humm, possibly the module that runs your hardware isn't present or
loaded. On the machine that fails eth0, what does an lspci report?

This is the output.

debian:/home/mak# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
0000:00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
0000:00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
0000:00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)
debian:/home/mak#

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