eth0 not recognized:school system

[Tyler Littlefield]

hello,
I installed it on debian.
I tried using the hw card that I've used on all my comps from home, and it 
still doesn't recognize it.
I'm in i/t. I'm using it for networking because wireshark is not accessible.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: eth0 not recognized:school system


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> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:07:33AM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> I'm trying to set up a linux system here at school at my lab station, and 
>> am using a cross over.
>
> Doesn't your school have an I/T department for doing that kind of
> stuff, or are they for windows only, or is setting up a gnu/linux
> system part of a course you're taking?
>
>> I installed linux and all that,
>
> "All that" isn't informative enough. What distribution?
>
>> but when I use ifconfig, it says that eth0 wasn't recognized.
>> I've tried:
>> inserting a NIC card in to the pci slot and using that.
>> I also tried the onboard card, and it's not recognizing.
>> Any ideas on how to get it to recognize? I've never had this problem 
>> before.
>
> What does dmesg say, if anything? Does linux have support for the
> card(s) you're trying to use, and if so, then is that support
> configured into your running kernel, either as modules, or built-in?
>
> Greg
>
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