On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:33:04PM +1300, Ron Dean wrote:
Relevant output from dmesg
32.983930] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 [ 32.984043] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 32.984614] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa000, 00:30:bd:b8:85:44, IRQ 16 [ 32.984618] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' [ 32.991975] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
This network card is supported obviously since the kernel has detected the chip and loaded the "8139cp" driver for it.
57.927380] eth0: link down
143.296908] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
This means that no cable is plugged in, or it is faulty, or the other end of the cable isn't plugged in to anything.
Don't know if this information is any help it wasn't connected at the time if anyone is able to suggest commands to see if he has the appropriate hardware.
You might need to provide more information about what you're trying to do, or what you expect to happen that isn't happening. John