> Now, for your problem, remove the ethernet cable to your desktop > and then try to find if there is ethernet eth0 present (using ifconfig > eth0). If it is not there, then you are missing some of the drivers > which u can proceed using lspci and finding the appropriate driver
$ ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found I get this whether or not the ethernet cable is plugged in. I'll try lspci tonight. > > If the ethernet interface comes back alive then connect the cable to > the interface and then check if the interface disappears. Also you can > check the status of the interface using command "mii-tool" which will > say if the carrier in the interface(link) is present or not. If the $ mii-tool SIOCGHIIPHY on eth0 failed: Operation not permitted repeats 7 times for eth0-eth7 no MII interfaces found > download the 2.6.16 kernel (not the latest ones since they have some > > PS: If you are in chennai then unicast me so that i can help u out. -- Can't see Hindi? http://devanaagarii.net -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
