On Thursday 26 January 2006 15:21, j Mak wrote: > First off, I am a newbie in Linux and > networking. I have two computers, both about four years old and both > have built in Ethernet and LAN support. One runs ubuntu ant other > sarge. The one with sarge connected to the Internet with dial-up > modem. Both works perfectly. I want to hook the two computers > together to be able to share printers, scanners and the Internet. > Because I have little understanding about setting up a LAN, I am > following a tutorial, I found on the Internet. So far this is what I > have done. I bought a crossover wire and hooked up the computers. I > tested the one with ubuntu installed with the "ifconfig eth0" command > and was confirmed that the eth0 works. The one with sarge installed > however doesn't recognize the eth0 interface. I get the following > message: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > Humm, possibly the module that runs your hardware isn't present or loaded. On the machine that fails eth0, what does an lspci report?
> Now, I don't know how to proceed. >If someone with good knowledge about these issues could kindly help me > with this problem, I would be very thankful. > > Regards, >J. Mak > > > > >--------------------------------- >Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]