Ubuntu & NIC

Is Ubuntu (5.04) network hardware setup basically different from
Fedora's? In the same machine Fedora has no problems but at Ubuntu 'ip
link show' sees eth0. But 'ifconfig' does not see it!

Paul wrote:
> Is Ubuntu (5.04) network hardware setup basically different from
> Fedora's? In the same machine Fedora has no problems but at Ubuntu 'ip
> link show' sees eth0. But 'ifconfig' does not see it!

"ip link show" shows only the existence of eth0. The cacnonical way to
bring the interface up is:

ifup eth0

but it probably won't do anything (otherwise the interface would be up
already). So look at the file /etc/network/interfaces

"man interfaces" will tell you what it should look like.

Robert

Paul wrote:
> Is Ubuntu (5.04) network hardware setup basically different from
> Fedora's? In the same machine Fedora has no problems but at Ubuntu 'ip
> link show' sees eth0. But 'ifconfig' does not see it!

networking in Ubuntu is different from Fedora (although I don't know how
much different it is). Ubuntu is based on Debian and you'll find a lot
of info looking for Debian networking.

In the file /etc/network/interfaces you have the whole config of your
NIC., For a basic config you should have no problems editing this file a
doing a restart.