Connecting to the internet... With Ethernet

[placebo21]

Hi,

I am new to Linux. I am trying to configure my internet connect connection and so far have had no luck. I have installed debian version 2.6.18.

I am trying to configure a connection via ethernet cable from a router.

When i go to network tools all that is there under network device is "Loopback interface" and it shows an ip address listed but it wont allow me to configure it.

I have tried a few things that i saw being reccomended on the forum by using the command terminal and running a these commands

dmesg |grep eth*

ifconfig eth0 up

dhclient eth0


but with no success as I am not entirely sure what i am doing.

If anyone could give me some direction i would appreciate it. Let me know if you need any more info.

[daark.child]

What is the output of running

#lspci | grep -i net

#ifconfig -a

and

#cat /etc/network/interfaces

[placebo21]

for "ifconfig -a" i get:

etho Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-11-D-00-01-6E-71-9B-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1008 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:50 dropped:50 overruns:0 frame:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes: 0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


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:818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes: 0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 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 frame:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes: 0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


for "cat /etc/network/interfaces" it says:

# This file describes the netwrk interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

#The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


Thats all i get. Hope this helps

[daark.child]

How about the output of lspci?

[placebo21]

i guess you added one more thing after or i didnt see it the first time


for "lspci | grep -i net" i get:

00:19:0 Ethernet controller : Intel Corporation Unknown device 294c (rev 02)

[daark.child]

It seems like others have had problems using the Intel based cards. Take a look here and here for possible solutions.