Debian doesn't see the ethernet card

**wae** · 10-21-2003

When I do the command 'ifconfig' without args, I get lo, but no eth0. and when I did the command 'lspci -v' I got the following

Code:

00&#58;0F.0 Ethernet controller&#58; Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit &#40;rev31&#41;
Subsystem&#58; Unknown device 3030&#58;5032
Flags&#58; bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 IRQ 5
I/O ports at c000 &#91;size=256&#93;
Memory at dffffe00 &#40;32bit, non-prefetchable&#41; &#91;size=256&#93;
Expansion ROM at dff80000 &#91;disabled&#93; &#91;size=256K&#93;
Capabilities&#58; &#91;50&#93; Power Management version 2

is it that I don't have the correct driver, or, do I need to do something in my BIOS to let linux detect the Ethernet card?

thank you

**genlee** · 10-21-2003

ifconfig only shows the current devices that are up. ifconfig -a will show all of them.

**wae** · 10-22-2003

thanks for the idea, which I tried and got the same response. Someone suggested to me that I'm going to have to reconfigure my kernel, which I'm not looking forward to.

Thanks

**Hellmasker** · 10-23-2003

u shouldnt have to, jsut fidn out what driver to use (by putting the device id into google usualy works) then add

Code:

alias eth0 driverName

to the end of ur /etc/modules.conf file

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tried that

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