Re: Newbie needs help with LAN set up
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 (EST)
>
>j Mak <joz_mak@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> 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#
>
>I see no ethernet there. Are you sure there is built-in ethernet? if
> so, (I assume it is since you've plugged it in right ;) is it perhaps
> disabled onthe motherboard by some jumper?
>
Or possibly in the bios, but I think linux finds them anyway in that
event.
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