internet through ethernet - help needed

[mail2sonam]

I am newbie. I made my system windows free and installed yoper. I love its speed. It has detected my ethernet card- Realtek. It shows it in dmesg.
But when I type ifconfig, it shows just
lo0
and configuration.

Theres no eth0. I have a dhcp server on my ethernet and want to connect to it..pls help

when i try
#ifup eth0
ifup:couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
#

[Skiboy]

Make sure you network is up first:

service network restart


then ifup eth0