Ethernet?

[gevans]

So now that my machine is up and running all is good, except that ubuntu doesn't detect my network card.

I know that the card is working because i was ssh'ed into that box 5 minutes prior to installing ubuntu (it was running NetBSD). In NetBSD the network card is labeled as le0 and works great, so can someone help me and explain how I go about getting it working in ubuntu?

Thanks

Greg

[bigken]

try changing it to eth0

[gevans]

Sadly I have tried that. Ubuntu doesn't (from what I can see in dmesg and /dev) even recognize that the card is there :/

any good cli utilities that I can use to try and find it?

Thanks

Greg

[gevans]

"sudo modprobe sunlance" made it work. Got the idea from HERE (http://mland98.rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/text/NIC_info.txt)

w00t! now how do I make that a permanent change so it always loads at boot?

[dradul]

1) Add the name of the module to the /etc/modules file

or (I think this is a better approach),

2) Create a file in /etc/modprobe.d with whatever name you fancy and place there the line:
alias eth0 sunlance

Only one of the two are needed.

As well I suggest you run a "sudo depmod -a", it would seem the kernel dependencies database is not up to date

[gevans]

Thanks dradul! the alias file in /etc/modprobe.d worked like a charm.