Cannot setup ADSL because no eth is recognised

**ronbarak** · May 17th, 2008

Hi,
I'm trying to set an IBM Thinkpad T43 laptop with Ubuntu 7.10
The machine can connect to an ASDL modem from Windows XP, but when I run "sudo ppoeconf", none of the three eth's in the system are recognised, and I cannot get connected.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks,
Ron.

**jbrown96** · May 19th, 2008

A couple of things to see if your card is working. Can you find your card in the output of

Code:

lspci

? Does

Code:

ifconfig

return anything for eth0 (usually your wired connection but it may be something else). If the card is found in lspci, but not in ifconfig, try to run

Code:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

, which will bring the interface up. It may be worth trying to substitute eth1 also.

**ronbarak** · May 19th, 2008

Originally Posted by jbrown96

A couple of things to see if your card is working. Can you find your card in the output of

Code:

lspci

? Does

Code:

ifconfig

return anything for eth0 (usually your wired connection but it may be something else). If the card is found in lspci, but not in ifconfig, try to run

Code:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

, which will bring the interface up. It may be worth trying to substitute eth1 also.

Thanks for the suggestions, JB.
My LAN cards are seen by ubunto (see the attached 'script' output file).
I found that my MTU was not to ubuntu's liking, and I changed it to 1500, so there're no complints of wrong mtu now.
However, still no luck in configing ADSL

Bye,
Ron.