Re: no network/eth0 with etch
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:49:40PM +0000, Robert Cates wrote:
>
> Does Etch (i386/i486) with the (standard) 2.6.18 kernel have a problem
> recognizing (some) network cards?
>
> I have a problem ever since apt-get dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. Etch
> with the standard 2.6.18 kernel does not find/recognize my network cards.
> Sarge (3.1) did and ran fine, Etch does not, and I even bought a new
> network card (which has a different chip) and it still does not. Not even
> the Debian installer from the CD1 ISO auto-detects the cards, or accepts my
> manual selection.
>
> I have NetGear FA311 adapters - the older one has the National
> Semiconductor chip (DP83816AVNG) which worked fine with Sarge (2.6.8
> kernel) and the newer one has the Realtek RTL8139D chip.
>
> Oh, what is sit0? When I give >> ifconfig -a I get the loopback and sit0
> interfaces(?).
>
I forget what sit0 is, other than that you don't have to worry about it.
I think it has something to do with inter-process comms.
Send us the output of dmesg | grep -i eth
Doug.
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