Hi, folks,

Can't seem to work this through with the aid of Google. I'm down to
seeking help.

I recently acquired a second, used AMD 64-bit box with an ASUS
motherboard. It came with WinXP Pro and didn't get an internet
connection to Comcast. Acting on a suspicion that the onboard ethernet
connection was dead, I ordered a Gigabit ethernet card. While awaiting
its delivery, I wiped the hard drives and installed Ubuntu 9.10
64-bit. Received and installed the ethernet card. No joy.

A few things I've tried without success, in no particular order:

-- Selecting eth0 as the connection type in Network Tools.
-- Selecting "connect automatically" under Network Connections eth0 properties.
-- Pulling the card and seeing if I could revive the onboard ethernet
connection.
-- Rotating cards in the machine in hopes of resolving an imaginable
IRQ conflict
-- Installing Ubuntu 32-bit as a virtual machine on my old box so I
could compare configuration details.
-- Confirmed that the right driver for the card is installed and active.
-- Installed Puppy 4.3.1 on both machines and compared configuration
details (my experience is that Puppy does better at auto-configuring
for hardware than Ubuntu).
-- etc.

All of which has got me nowhere over several days.

This is new turf for me because ethernet connections have always just
worked for me. So I'm unsure what information folks will need to
assist me.

Appreciate some hand-holding here.

Best regards,

Paul






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