Greg Madden <[email protected]> writes: > On Saturday 16 October 2010 10:57:30 Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Morgan Gangwere <[email protected]> writes: >> > "dmesg | grep eth" gives the folloing output: >> > >> > eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) >> > >> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:15:12 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <> wrote: >> >> But... what kind of device is that? Are you using an adapter >> >> (firewire to ethernet)? :-? >> > >> > the 1394 standard says that a computer which supports 1394 must also >> > support "1394 networking". Short end of it, if you need to move some >> > data between two 1394 capable computers, you use that. They act like >> > normal, everyday, nondescript ether ports in software, no less. >> >> But eth0 is not the device I'm using: the device I'm using as an ethernet >> port is eth1, but it doesn't appear in dmesg nor in lspci output: this is >> /etc/network/interfaces: >> >> auto lo >> iface lo inet loopback >> >> auto eth1 >> allow-hotplug eth1 >> iface eth1 inet static >> address 192.168.0.1 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> >> >> Rodolfo > > If lspci does't find your ethernet controller it probably died, that happens. > AFAIK lspci finds functioning hardware on the pci bus whether or not modules > for devices are installed. > > On a laptop, options are usb>ethernet or a pcmcia card if available.
If I can solve the proble with a simple usb-ethernet adapter, it's not much too bad. How shall I configure the system with it? The same way as the ethernet port, via the file /etc/network/interfaces? Morgan Gangwere <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:30:24 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <> wrote: > [...] > > Had any electrical storms? Switches that have been acting up? New > carpeting? Power outages? Brownouts? Etc? > > > Sounds like the device is busted, frankly. Nothing of all that. The computer is 5 years old, maybe this? Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
