-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/11 12:56, dave b wrote: > On 8 March 2011 11:33, Heracles <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> How do you get Debian 6.0.0 to see a network card? >> >> I have installed Ubuntu 10.10, Fedora core 14 and SuSE 11.3 and all of >> them detected and were able to use both my ethernet card (built in >> gigabit) and my Linksys wireless card (as rt61 PCI) with me only having >> to supply the encryption key.
> It should "just work tm". However, if it isn't there (in the > /sbin/ifconfig output) then you may need to install > firmware-linux-nonfree & firmware-linux-free. > I am sure it should "just work" as it does in other distros but it doesn't. I have both firmware-linux-nonfree & firmware-linux-free installed and still no joy. lspci shows the nic and so does iwconfig but ifconfig only shows the loopback interface. It does not even show the (100/1000Mb) ethernet interface. Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora all show both. Am I missing something? Heracles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2FpEkACgkQybPcBAs9CE89ZQCghhDhv13fan+JZtmV+RVZwLQ4 N2gAoJ6WKPMHu8CI7VRRC6XAGcV5QUXX =9CD3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
