On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:

> > 
> > > Howdy all. I had a old network card die and I swapped it out with a new one,
> > > but now eth0 does not show up when I try to use the ifconfig command. I stuck
> > > in a knoppix disk and the eth0 was there and able to ping out, and as my
> > > debian install is based on Knoppix I am soewaht confused why it is not showing
> > > up. I compared the modules that were loaded normally vs what knoppix
> > > autoloaded and do not see a smoking gun.
> > >
> > > Please help
> > 
> > We nee dmore info ...
> > 
> > dmesg | grep eth
> > 
> >    Jeremy C. Reed
> >    http://www.reedmedia.net/
> 
> root@vishnu:~# dmesg | grep eth
> root@vishnu:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces 
> # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
> 
> # The loopback interface
> # automatically added when upgrading
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> It spit out nothing with the suggested command...


Boot with Knoppix, note the module used for your nic, then add that module
and an alias for eth0 to /etc/modules.conf