No networking with Debian 3.1 with 2.6 kernel

[Michael Hong]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:10 -0500, tlug-KfBRzk3UKwol8X4E99VVQg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Sorry Tim,
> 
> Nothing that easy :-(
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:840 (840.0 b)  TX bytes:840 (840.0
> b)
> 
> sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4  
>           NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 

Are you running Debian's shipped kernel?  I would check to see if the
module for your NIC is loaded with lsmod, if not, modprobe it then try
'ifup eth0'.   To get the module loaded on boot, try putting it in
/etc/modules .

Michael

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