Re: detect ethernet card?
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:13:40PM +0200, Atu wrote:
>
> Now I have all my networking hardware in place, and it works (tested with
> another computer). I want to add network functionality to my lenny-PC, but I
> can't bring eth0 up with "ifup eth0":
>
> #ifup eth0
> [...]
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> Failed to bring up eth0.
> #
>
> lspci -v sees the ethernet chip on the mainboard though. At least it tells me
> the precise model number. I can load the kernel module ("e1000") for this
> ethernet chip or not, the error message stays the same.
>
It would be helpful to post the output of lspci -v (at least the part
with the ethernet chip information) and lsmod (so we can see what
modules are loaded).
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