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Posted: July 26 2007,14:04 QUOTE
Quote (curaga @ July 24 2007,11:31)
from a terminal type:
"sudo modprobe e1000"


I have tryed this but I must still be doing something wrong as my net card still doesn't appear to be recignised.

I entered the command line in a teminal and it was accepted with no errors returned. Trying to find out if this has worked I have tryed the following.

Working from the Control Pannel: "netcard config" still reports No supported network cards found, PPEoE setup says there is no workig network card and offers to run "modconf2 to try and find one. If I OK this nothing seems to happen -- the same report window appears again and again.

The net browser (whose name I forget) can't connect to anything but local documents.

From a terminal I have tryed to ping my router (which I can do in MS Windows) but ping reports that the network is inaccesable when I try it in DSL. BTW the network link lights are on at the router and PC.

I would be greatful if you have any ideas what I am doig wrong.
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Posted: July 26 2007,14:24 QUOTE
After "sudo modprobe e1000", type "lsmod" and look if e1000 appears as a loaded module in the list.
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Posted: July 26 2007,15:09 QUOTE
Thanks there.

I've got a bit of work to do right now, but I'll try that and report back. I do't realy want to let this beat me.
Thanks.
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Posted: July 27 2007,16:03 QUOTE
Juanito, I have managed to try "lsmod" and the first line of the output is as follows

Module                          Size                          Used by
e1000                            97204                         0

so it looks as if the ethernet driver is loaded by "modprobe" but what can I try next to conect with my router?

BTW I have managed to save the whole "lsmod" output as a text file and could post it here if it would be helpful.

Thanks again for your interest everybody
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Posted: July 27 2007,16:20 QUOTE
now it's loaded, you can try to give it a ip address manually..

It's done with ifconfig, I don't remember the exact command but it's something like "ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.5/24 up"

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