From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Nelson Subject: Re: detecting eth0 with fedora core 2 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:18:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4212673D.3090203@cwazy.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Karthik Vishwanath Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > Hello, > > We got a new machine at work with an intel P4@2.8GHz from Dell [model: > Optiplex GX280] with an Intel broadcom(r) NIC. I installed fedora core 2 > by replacing the windows partition, which installed painlessly. > > However, I am unable to "see" eth0 via a /sbin/ifconfig eth0 (I get a > mesasage saying eth0 not found). I could'nt find any info in > /var/log/messages indicating whether the device was detected or not. How > can I try to detect this device and obtain its MAC-address? > > > First off, let's see what you have. Could you please post the output of dmesg and lspci? Have you installed X? If so, you can use system-config-network to set it up - provided that the NIC is supported. If not, NDISwrapper is called for. Jim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs