On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:17:50 -0500 (EST) > >j Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: >> > First off, I am a newbie in Linux >> > and networking. I have two computers, both about four years old >> > and both have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu >> > ant other sarge. The one with sarge connected to the Internet with >> > dial-up modem. Both works perfectly. I want to hook the two >> > computers together to be able to share printers, scanners and the >> > Internet. Because I have little understanding about setting up a >> > LAN, I am following a tutorial, I found on the Internet. So far >> > this is what I have done. I bought a crossover wire and hooked up >> > the computers. I tested the one with ubuntu installed with the >> > "ifconfig eth0" command and was confirmed that the eth0 works. The >> > one with sarge installed however doesn't recognize the eth0 >> > interface. I get the following message: eth0: error fetching >> > interface information: Device not found >> >> Humm, possibly the module that runs your hardware isn't present or >> loaded. On the machine that fails eth0, what does an lspci report? >> >> This is the output. >> >> debian:/home/mak# lspci >> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host >> (rev 02) 0000:00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems >> [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) 0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon >> Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) 0000:00:01.2 >> USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller >> (rev 07) 0000:00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems >> [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07) 0000:00:01.4 Multimedia audio >> controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio >> Accelerator (rev 02) 0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated >> Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 0000:01:00.0 VGA >> compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] >> (rev a3) debian:/home/mak# > >I see no ethernet there. Are you sure there is built-in ethernet? if > so, (I assume it is since you've plugged it in right ;) is it perhaps > disabled onthe motherboard by some jumper? > Or possibly in the bios, but I think linux finds them anyway in that event.
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