Ethernet not working, a weird one!

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:47:18PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
>     On June 18, lightning struck our home.

Wow, do you mean that literally? If you mean that lightning struck your
power/phone lines, then I'd strongly suggest investing in a surge
protector, one with protection for both power and phone, and hook up
your pc to it, including network hub/switch, and dsl/dial-up modems to
the phone line through the protector. If you have cable, then there
are surge protectors that also have coax jacks.

> What could this be?

If the card shows up in lspci, and you have the driver for it loaded,
it should also show up in dmesg. So, what does dmesg have to say? I'd
say you might have a udev issue somewhere, though that's just a
guess. Also, are you sure that the card isn't in fact recognized? It
could be recognized, but assigned a different interface, like eth1
instead of eth0. If that's the case, then that's a udev rule issue. To
answer your other question in another post, no, if you have the driver
built into the kernel, then there are no modules to load.

>     If I end up having to rebuild from scratch, what is a currently good  
> distro for console only, no GUI Linux that supports Speakup? If I were  
> rebuilding anyway, I would strongly consider switching from Gentoo to an  
> easier to maintain distro.

I'd recommend debian myself.

Greg


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