> With Knoppix 6.0, I ran `ifconfig -a' and got the following output:
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX
> packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
> txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Ugh. It does not detect the ethernet device either.
> "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output:
>
> eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
>
>
> What should we conclude?
But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter
(firewire to
ethernet)? :-?
What is the output of "lspci | grep -i ethernet"?