[PLUG] Debian NIC Troubles

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Joshua Keroes wrote:

> I added Debian's 'testing' distribution to the sources.list file,
> updated over 300 packages, and now the system has lots of shiny toys
> to play with!  ...and one less working NIC: eth0 is gone.
>
> Points of fact:
>
> 1. netstat -a shows only the loopback.
>
> 2. kudzu saw and configured the NIC (it's an Intel 8259a IIRC) but
>    after a reboot, there's still no eth0.
>
> The million dollar question is: how do I inform the system of this
> NIC?

All you probably need to do is load the appropriate module. Try, e.g.,

  modprobe e100

and then "dmesg | tail" to see if that worked. If not, try Donald
Becker's older driver:

  modprobe eepro100

If all that fails, post the output of /bin/lspci to the list.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>