eth0 not recognized:school system

[Alex Snow]

Is the card recognised as another interface? try just running ifconfig 
and seeing what output you get.  I had a couple of systems at work 
that for some reason saw the onboard ethernet as eth2, even though 
there were no eth0 or eth1.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:07:33AM -0700, 
Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to set up a linux system here at school at my lab station, and am using a cross over.
> I installed linux and all that, 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.
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