Wolodja -- the output from the lspci command is 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:10f0] (rev 06)
Papul -- the kernel is 2.6.26-2-amd64. Sounds like I should just go ahead and update my kernel, and that should solve some other, unrelated and less critical issues. I'll try that tonight (right now it's 7:15 AM local time and I'm off to work). Thanks for the suggestions, -PT On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <quar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC > motherboard. I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its > built-in ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured on > installation. There is no eth0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces, no eth0 > entry displayed by ifconfig, no dhcpd.conf file is present, and dhcpd is not > listed in inetd.conf. > > I suspect that the problem is that the motherboard is so new that it's not > supported in the 2.6.26 version of the kernel: when I looked at the Intel > webpage relevant to the board, > http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/dh55tc/sb/CS-031186.htm, > it suggests that a LAN driver may be needed for Linux, and I infer from > their table of information that this is more likely to be the case for > kernel versions prior to about 2.6.31. > > So what I think I need to do is the following: > > 1. Download and install the LAN driver > 2. Manually configure the system so that it recognizes the Ethernet tap > 3. Add eth0 to /etc/network/interfaces > 4. add a dhcpd.conf file > 5. add dhcpd to inetd.conf. > > Does that sound about right, or is the reality simpler / less simple than > that? > > Assuming I've got it right: how do I accomplish step 2? > > Thanks in advance, > -PT >
