LiveCD and wireless network

[gradedcheese]

Are you sure that eth0 is the LAN and not the WLAN interface? iwconfig will tell you. I'd really love to see this laptop in person as I own two T60's with the same hardware and I know of three others using Hardy without a problem. Everything works, Live CD and all.

Instead of giving up, let's troubleshoot this systematically. Put the CD in, boot it up all the way, and let's see what gets modprobe'd. Please open a terminal, before doing anything, and run:

lsmod | grep e1000
lsmod | grep iwl
ifconfig -a

...and post the results (or a summary) here.

[frankhovin]

lsmod |grep e1000:

e1000            125760        0

lsmod |grep iwl:

nothing

ifconfig -a:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:58:c5:46:f6  
          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 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Base address:0x3000 Memory:ee000000-ee020000 

irda0     Link encap:IrLAP  HWaddr 00:00:00:00  
          NOARP  MTU:2048  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 txqueuelen:8 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:10044 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10044 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:502200 (490.4 KB)  TX bytes:502200 (490.4 KB)