On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Tommy McCabe wrote: > I have a direct ethernet connection (no visible card, wire just plugs into > computer) that connects to a cable modem which is connected to the Internet > and another computer. The Internet works fine via Windows, but Debian won't > access anything. Everything points to an Ethernet "card" (which I don't > think I have and even if I did it's buried in my computer). I tried running > Etherconf, but even after I installed it, it didn't work (it said there was > no such command, but apt-get said it was already installed). HELP!!! > > PS I'm not subscribed to the mailing list to spare hundreds of emails > daily, but I will be searching the Internet archives.
I recommend you run lspci, that should list your hardware. It will give you something like this: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8753 [P4X266 AGP] (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine] (rev 06) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) 00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 70) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] In this case my built-in ethernet controller is identified as: 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine] (rev 06) all I have to do is load the via-rhine module to get ethernet to work. If you can't figure things out, please reply and attach the output of lspci so that we can recommend a course of action. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com
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