The original message stated the computer works fine under Windoze. I'm
wondering if an upgrade to the driver has rendered the NIC inaccessible.
First thing I would try would be to put a live CD in and see if it can pull
up the NIC.

On 6/5/07, Erich Newell <erich.newell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If "ifconfig eth0" returns " ERROR while getting interface flags: No such
> device" then your NIC is probably bad as Darrin described.
>
> If you instead get something like:
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:DE:07:BB:AA
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:82374 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1728 (1.6 KiB)
>           Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000 Memory:dcfff000-dcffffff
>
>
> Then I'm guessing your DHCP server has crapped out. If it is your
> FW/Router, simply power cycling it my solve the situation. If not, try
> adding a static IP and bringing the device up.
>
> vi /etc/network/interfaces
>
> change the line from
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> to
>
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.1.20 <-- adjust this as appropriate for your network
> gateway 192.168.1.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> and then do /etc/init.d/networking restart
>
> or
>
> ifconfig eth0 down
> ifconfig eth0 up
>
> and then see if you have connectivity. If not, my money is on a bad cable
> or swtich port.
>
> Cheers.
>
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