I lost my eth0! My precious!

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Author: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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Subject: I lost my eth0! My precious!
>
> > 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...