So Mandrake's hardware detector is failing you. Did it happen to try to sell you aspirin tablets?
As root, do ``lsmod''. This will list your drivers that are loaded
into your kernel. The driver for your Ethernet card should be there.
If you have a laptop, then you need to make sure that your pcmcia
drivers are also loaded. For example, this set of drivers will work
if you have a certain 3COM PC Card:
3c589_cs 9096 1 (replace this with your actual
driver)
ds 7060 2 [3c589_cs]
yenta_socket 10816 2
pcmcia_core 47200 0 [3c589_cs ds yenta_socket]
Otherwise, if you have a PCI Ethernet card, you need a driver like
ne2k_pci or 8390 loaded in. ``modprobe driver'' will load
``driver''. If you don't know what drivers go with what cards, I
would tell you to do ``apt-get install discover'', but you're not
running Debian. ;-) What does ``lspci'' give you? Try grep'ing the
kernel source, or just ask Google.
Then, once the driver is loaded, you can use ``pump'' or ``dhcpcd'' to
get a new IP address. ``ifconfig -a'' will list all Ethernet devices
that the kernel knows of, and ``ifconfig'' will list all Ethernet
devices that are active (or ``up'').
When you've figured out what modules you need, slap them into
/etc/modules. Or insmod them directly from an /etc/rc directory.
Mike
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:04:51PM -0600, Scott Paul Robertson wrote:
> All,
> Well those of you on the newbies list are familiar with my sound
> problem in mandrake. In the process of getting the kernel source
> installed I ran the mandrake update to update to the same kernel version
> as the kernel-source that mandrake's update was trying to install.
>
> It worked fine, I shut the machine down and went to sleep.
> After getting home from school I boot in Linux to do some coding and
> work on my sound problem, and then when I try to launch KDE I get a nice
> error stating that the system can't detect my NVIDIA kernel
> interface(not exact message). A lo and behold, the systems not picking
> up eth0 anymore.
>
> Getting the latest linux drivers for my GeForce and trying to
> install, they need the kernel-source. Which still won't install.
>
> And I'm stuck.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> I really don't want to have to save my user directory and reinstall.
>
> Scott
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