It seems like your network card is not recognised. Perhaps it is
disabled in the bios? Sometimes it conflicts with the "Wake up on lan"
setting from the bios.
Try this command: dmesg | grep eth0
Here's my output, for comparison:
[3.848018] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc800, 00:1e:8b:6c:21:b4, I
Rowan,
The reason why many ISPs do not 'support' Linux is that Linux is not an
operating system in the sense that Windows or MacOS are. It is a kernel,
and there are about a dozen popular operating systems that use it
(distributions) and a hundred more of the unpopular ones. Ubuntu is just
one of t
