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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