Where i can find drivers for ubuntu?

[Amichai Rotman]

Why don't you send us the lspci output?

We need more information so we can help fix the problem.

Have the "service guys" check the router with their hard drive and *their
own* NIC cable? Maybe your ethernet cable is bad?

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Amichai Rotman

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 23:14, Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 9:58:00 am arshad wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 09:25 -0800, Pastor JW wrote:
> > >
> > > If the light does not come on in the NIC port when a cable is plugged
> in,
> > > the card itself is what is having the problem.  Check if it is properly
> > > seated in the slot, try in a different slot or computer, ...but likely
> > > you would need a new NIC.  Going to USB would slow your speed down to
> > > modem speeds,  ...not usually a desired solution given the fact that
> NICs
> > > usually cost about a quarter of what a decent serial solution costs.
> >
> > The service center guys, replaced my hard with their XP installed hard
> > and plugged in their router and it worked and so they said there is no
> > problem in NIC. and instead asked me to check the router or format the
> > machine. but my router works in other machines. :(
>
> so unless you excluded the MAC address of your NIC, the problem is not in
> the
> router.
>
> > so is it something i formatting the machine would solve the prob?
>
> # lspci  gave you the manufacturer of the NIC and of course you checked to
> see
> how Ubuntu works with that particular NIC. (either builtin drivers so it
> just
> worked or how to install windoze drivers and use ndiswrapper)   I don't
> actually know of any NIC which can't work with Ubuntu or Linux for that
> matter since way back in the '90s.  Windoze is NEVER the fix, only usually
> the problem.
>
>
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