How do i know whether my NIC works or not?

[Christian Schult]

Hello arshad,

arshad wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 23:43 +0100, Christian Schult wrote:

> > arshad wrote:
> > 
> > > and here are the output for commands you put above:
> > > thank you very much
> > > 
> > > $ cat /etc/network/interfaces | grep -v "^#"
> > > auto lo
> > > iface lo inet loopback

> > gksudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
> > 
> > at the bottom add an empty line and then:
> > 
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp

> the /etc/network/interfaces file already have only those two lines what
> you asked me to add. (but without an empty line at the top) so i just
> added an empty live above those two lines. ;-)

The two lines you showed with cat /etc/network/interfaces and i told you
to add are not the same. Look again please.


Christian