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hckarsch

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Registered: 2013-06-29

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Not finding ethernet interface during install

Hi,
I've been using Ubuntu for about 2 years and now for a variety of reasons I am switching to Arch.

I've been scouring the Wiki and the forums for about 2 hours now but can't seem to figure this out.  All I can find is lo, no eth0 or anything else along those lines. The wiki hasn't been much help since it seems to assume that if you are having network connection problems, you will still have the ethernet interface.

For reference, this is a Dell Studio XPS 7100, the ethernet controller uses tg3, and I am plugged directly into a modem that is definitely getting internet access as confirmed by booting back into my Ubuntu partition.

Thanks!

Last edited by hckarsch (2013-06-29 18:10:46)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: [SOLVED] Not finding ethernet interface during install

Check your device name with lspci, then search the forums for it - maybe it is some obscure chip that needs manual loading of drivers. Apart from that, see the wiki for how to find out your device name etc.

Edit: "directly plugged into a modem" - not a router? then you might need to set up pppoe.

Last edited by hokasch (2013-06-29 18:07:37)

hckarsch

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Registered: 2013-06-29

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Not finding ethernet interface during install

Aha, good call, I should have thought to do that. Thanks!

(https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110026, for anyone who is curious)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: [SOLVED] Not finding ethernet interface during install

Heh... hckarsch and hokasch, I couldn't figure out at first why the same person was talking to him/herself as though he/she was two people.  But then I realized that you two just had amazingly similar names.