The scenerio;
I recently flattened my hard drives to reinstall Linux on 2 of them due
to storm damage or some hacking from outside . I could never determine
which. The file systems were corrupted and I was haveing to run e2fsck
every time I rebooted. I completely cleared the drives by resizing the
partitions & rewriting the file systems from the Debian 3.0 installation
disks (floppies) I want to establish that I did not change out or move
any cards or other hardware & my 3rd drive with Windows 98se still
worked fine. I reinstalled Debian with not problems until I reached the
point where the network should have started and allowed me to get to the
internet to use apt to complete the installation. The network
configuration script said it was finished but that the network was not
activated "possibly" because I was installing over a broken system,
howerver it stated that this should be resolved when I rebooted. So I
continued on & finished the install & rebooted. I saw that the kernel
found & identified my NIC identifying it properly as a Realtek 8139
based card. It did NOT load the module( uses the 8139too) so I used
insmod & loaded it. the kernel acknowledged this but still no connection
to the net.
Since then I have tried reinstalling Potato & changing out the NIC
to a NEW Intel based Farallon card --all with the same result. I also
tried burning a new installation CD...same result. Linux installs but no
net. Hrers the real rub; Windows 98se is still finding the cards and
works fine.
I am not a newbie but this simply makes no sense, especially because I
have used all of these drives for at least 2 years and have used them
with this recently built computer for 2 months. I simply switched them
into the new box & rebooted with no problems.
Any ideas are appreciated.
John Foster
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