Cannot access my lan/internet (can't find eth0)

[imported_learner]

I wrongly assumed that backtrack (on a LiveCD) would be able to automatically detect my wired Ethernet connection, which is connected to a Netgear RP614v2 router, which is inturn connected to a (cable) Motorola SB5100 cable modem.

Back track booted up fine. Everything worked until I tried to access both my lan and the internet (through firefox/konq). I could not access either.

I then went to console and typed;

ifconfig -a

to see a list of devices

The only device found was lo. Which was not a way to connect to my router or the internet. I then looked up network.sh and xatar's how to configure network interfaces. (Can't paste the sites new user D

Neither did anything, no eth0 was detected, or pan0 for that matter.

I went back to my friendly Ubuntu 8.10, and ran ifconfig -a again, and have pasted the results below. BTW my router/lan/internet work fine on ubuntu/vista.

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c0:28:50:72
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:c0ff:fe28:5072/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1997 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2465 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1724753 (1.7 MB) TX bytes:359373 (359.3 KB)
Memory:a3200000-a3220000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7812 (7.8 KB) TX bytes:7812 (7.8 KB)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f6:46:a6:1f:0c:3e
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Any ideas would be appreciated. And Thorn if you answer this, don't cut me down and tell me to switch distros.

[imported_hatake_kakashi]

paste your lspci and lspci -n output. Its probably a new chipset that hasn't been added on, etc.

[imported_learner]

paste your lspci and lspci -n output. Its probably a new chipset that hasn't been added on, etc.

Following is lspci -nn of the ethernet (Textual + Numerical IDs);

00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:294c] (rev 02)

Everything after/before this is the Motherboard ,PCI, USB, Audio, IDE, Firewire - not relevant unless you say so.

Thanks for the fast reply.

[imported_hatake_kakashi]

According to this: http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/E1000E.html it seems like you will need to upgrade the kernel to use the ethernet device.

[secure_it]

Yup intel e1000 gigabit LAN Cards are mentioned in kernel 2.6.28 and you need to manually select & compile them for working as they are by default not selected.

[imported_learner]

Thanks for the help, I'll go look up how to update the kernel. Tell you the results,

[imported_learner]

The way I see it, after searching throughout google/backtrack forums, the only way to upgrade your kernel easily would be on a HDD install. Apparently, it would be dificult to create one in a LiveCD format - driver issues. BT3 still a useful tool, but I have neither the experience neccessary to rebuild a kernel for a liveCD that won't create a whole host of new problems. I'll hold out until BT4 beta (long wait), hopefully the kernel will be updated, and more of BT3 bugs fixed.