No networking with Debian 3.1 with 2.6 kernel

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 10:24:06PM -0500, tlug-KfBRzk3UKwol8X4E99VVQg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I tried adding them... no luck. Here is the dmesg and
> network restart output. Any ideas?
> 
> ***********************************
> /etc/init.d/networking restart
> ***********************************
> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
> Enabling packet forwarding...done.
> Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo
> already configured
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
> device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
> device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
> device
> Failed to bring up eth0.
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
> Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet
> Software Consortium.
> All rights reserved.

So you really don't appear to have any ethernet ports enabled.

What does 'ifconfig -a' show?

what about 'cat /etc/modules' and 'lsmod'?

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