ubuntu 8.10 /dev/eth0 problem

[Jose]

mathenge at gmail.com wrote:
> Sounds like Ubuntu can't see the network card. When you're in SUSE or CentOS what does /sbin/ifconfig -a display?
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> From: Jose
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> Sent: Dec 5, 2008 8:43 AM
> Subject: ubuntu 8.10 /dev/eth0 problem
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I got a new ubuntu 8.10 loaded on my machine, and the network does not 
> work, I have a couple of other partitions loaded with Centos and Suse, 
> and the nec work well on those, I even tried loading mythbuntu based on 
> 8.10 and same problem.
> 
> I noticed during boot up and displays some messages after the part of 
> loading the network, saying something about some libraries, couldn't get 
> the name because of goes so fast.
> 
> I tried setting the interfaces file statically does not work because 
> eth0 it doesn't exists, ifup only shows more error messages saying the 
> device is not there, which is true, goggleing around I found there seem 
> to be something broken with it's network manager, I removed tried again, 
> same problem.
> 
> Does anybody has found a problem like this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jose
> 
It does display the regular eth0 information, with it's IP address ad so 
on, ubuntu only displays lo and loopback