31 Dec
2008
31 Dec
'08
9:18 p.m.
Maybe I just have a faulty network adaptor on the motherboard. But if that was the case, wouldn't it NOT be displayed with lspci?
Only if it was totally dead. If you've got a spare PCI nic, try plugging that one in. It'll almost definitely appear as eth1, NOT eth0[1], so bear that in mind when testing it [1] Debian and Ubuntu create udev rules to automatically map a specific MAC address to the eth* number it was first seen with. If you remove the network card, the mapping still remains. This can be fixed, but the exact fix is distro dependant. On my Ubuntu 8.10 box, I would remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and reboot the system. The exact filename is different on Debian (has a different number, I think 25 from memory)