Ubuntu server not recognizing any NIC

[JoeyJoeJoe]

Got an old Dell Dimension 8200 that I'm trying to get Ubuntu server installed on. Installation went fine and I'm very much blindly poking around trying to get the on-board NIC working so I can at least download a desktop environment.

It's never easy, but I'm not giving up.

Kernel is 2.6.20-15-server

lspci shows:

• Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter (rev 11)
• Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

Ideally I would like to just get the wireless Atheros card working, but I did not find madwifi in my distro ("locate madwifi" yielded nothing).

I saw mention of a "tuilip driver" here to try on the wired NIC:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...t=2015&cat=123

But I'm not sure how to install that either.

Right now my box is utterly disconnected to the known universe and all I have is a command line install of Ubuntu Server.

Much obliged,
JJJ

[redhead]

Well, for madwifi, theres an Exelent description on hte madwifi site.
As it seems, you need to install the linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) instead of madwifi

[redhead]

oh, forgot to mention, the "tulip driver" in question could be the tulip related found in:
"Device drivers" -> "Network Device support" -> "Ethernet 10 or 100 Mbit" -> "Tulip family network device support" -> "DECchip Tulip (dc2114x) PCI support "

If you're not that much into comipiling your own kernel, you can see if it exists by trying:
# modprobe tulip

If this is doing it for you, you can add it to /etc/modules

[JoeyJoeJoe]

Worked like a champ. Thanks redhead