No eth0!! (..and yes, i've read FAQ)

[FONE STAR]

Hi I've used B|T V1.0 before and even had it installed to my laptop before. I recently installed B|T V2.0 Final to a partition on my Dell Inspiron 2200. Nothing seems to identfify the Intel PRO 10/100 VE Ethernet NIC.

I tried booting

'linux acpi=off'
'ifconfig eth0 up'
eth0: Error while getting interface flags: No such device

'Ifconfig -a' lists: ath0, lo, sit0 and wifi0 but that's it.... no eth0!!

Tried booting with no usb or pcmcia cards in case of conflicts same thing....

'lspci' does identify it as an Intel PRO 10/100 card.

I never had any trouble with the V2.0 Beta live CD. Any Ideas what could be wrong???

[FONE STAR]

nobody has an idea what could be wrong?? There must be some part that I can edit or a tarball with drivers? Not exactly an uncommon NIC....

[thorin]

Is it a broadcom NIC?

[roguer]

is the e100 driver loaded? (try lsmod).
if not, modprobe e100.

[FONE STAR]

that worked!

got my eth0 wired connection back, they should put that part in the FAQ's.

[kvabt2]

and I have also this problem:

TOSHIBA Satellite U200-181

screenshot -> h..p://foto.mail.ru/mail/nucleus_n/kvabt2/1.html

[shamanvirtuel]

well >> there's 2 case

1 your card is supported
>>> maybe the driver is not load or don't exist, find the name of driver(and dl if u dont have it) and try
>>> if exist remove the old driver with
lsmod | grep nameofdriver, if any appears type modprobe -r nameofolddriver
>>> install new driver by untar,make all, make install ,depmod -a, modprobe nameofnewdriver
>>> ifconfig eth0 up

normally will be good


2 your card is not suportted with linux drivers.... maybe if it's just a "surf only card" and not "for doing good job card" you can just use ndiswrapper with your windows driver, but i hate this , use a piece of MS code in linux is really shit, ethically speaking lol....

[shamanvirtuel]

that worked!

got my eth0 wired connection back, they should put that part in the FAQ's.

well you can also do the job urself at http://backtrack.offensive-security.com
it's the BT wiki, will find a page call "BUGS" you can add your solution in Hardware part of this page, just create account, click edit on the BUGS pages and write down what u want

[buddyksa]

Hi Fonestar,

I am also using the same NIC card, could you share what you did to make it worked...

Thanks,

[kvabt2]

is the e100 driver loaded? (try lsmod).
if not, modprobe e100.

thx!!! it's work