network card problems

[kevinalle]

Hi
I am trying to install a mini server in a rather old machine (PII, 96 MB RAM).
I installed Xubuntu and everything works fine except for the network.
i had an Encore enl832-tx-icnt network card and i thought it didn't work. so I bought a SolTech nl-n01-d.
The first time i turned on the machine, the leds of the back went on, but obviously i didn't have the drivers installed.
so i installed the drivers just as the manual said, and rebooted. since then the leds never went on again and it doesn't work..
I even tried ubuntus live cd but it doesn't seem to recognize it either.
if I do
"ifconfig", eth0 appears, but it doesn't have any inet address.
"ethtool" says it is working at 10Mbps(??)
"lspci" says Ethernet Controller: Unknown Device
"ifup eth0" says "no DHCPOFFER"

oh, and.. a friend lend me a genius network card which worked perfectly (that is why I thought the Encore wasn't working in the first place)

the computer is connected to a router that forks fine.
I have tried quite a lot of things with ifconfig and ethtool.. but no success.. leds remain off.

Does anyone have a clue of what the problem might be?
Thanks!

[superprash2003]

please post your ifconfig output

[kevinalle]

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:20:AC:AF:15
UP 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 txquelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe800


it is configured with DHCP... but Static IP doesn't work either..
thanks

[deltaprime]

thats interesting let me try to come up with something.

delta

[superprash2003]

have you tried pinging your router with static ip?

[kevinalle]

yeap.. no luck..

now.. this is kinda weird..
look at the response from ethtool:

kevin@server:~$ sudo ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised auto negotiation: No
Speed: 10Mb/s
Duplex: Half
Port: Twisted pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pum
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0xffffffff (-1)
Link detected: no


why 10Mb/s ?? my LAN connection is 100Mb/s..
I tried changing this but couldn't..

and I don't understand much of the rest...

Thanks

[kevinalle]

ok.. now I have a new problem..
I cleaned the PC and installed a text mode 8.04 ubuntu, because I wanted to try ndiswrapper so I needed a newer kernel.
I downloaded ndiswrapper and copied it to that computer.. but when y typed "make" it said I don't have the kernel source..
I tried downloading the package and copying it and installing the deb, but it didn't work..

So please.. can someone tell me how to install the source?
(that PC does not have internet)
Thanks!