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New Try booting the MEPIS CD.
You can run MEPIS from the CD. I'm pretty sure it'll try to find your network too. If that works, you know it's software.

If it doesn't (and if it did before), then you may have a hardware problem (or a problem away from your PC).

HTH.

Luck!

Cheers,
Scott.
New Re: Try booting the MEPIS CD.
Have a Suse live CD handy - it worked.
OK, back to non-graphical debian.

It tells me my "Link encap:UNSPEC" with a really wierd long MAC address, ending in bunches of zeros.

I then "ip link show" and see "link/ieee1994" for eth0.
Firewire?????

So it does not hjave the motherboard based ethernet configured, and it is assigning the firewire port the IP address.

lspci tells me I have a Marvell Technology Group Yukon Ethernet controller.
On booting Suse it tells me it is a Galileo Technology.

But I get get past that point with Suse, I assume it is trying to go Graphics and then has problems with my nvidia card.

So: I need to figure out how to configure in the chip and stop using the firewire.
What next?
New sk98lin is the driver
[link|http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man4/sk98lin.4.html|http://www.die.net/d...n4/sk98lin.4.html]

Now I have to deal with /etc/modules.conf or some such - it's been a LONG time since I played at admin.
New Greg got me going
place drive in /etc/modules, change nvidia to nv for non-accellerated, learned a bit about debian networking, learned enough about changing kernel to realize I never want to do it.

I'll probably end up installing a play machine, make it my "primary", and then redo this one.
New no big deal, just mainly diffs in Mephis vs Debian
And It would be a matter of me just looking at a Mephis box to "get" the diffs.

Just glad I could help.
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     Possible fried port - help! - (broomberg) - (5)
         Try booting the MEPIS CD. - (Another Scott) - (4)
             Re: Try booting the MEPIS CD. - (broomberg) - (3)
                 sk98lin is the driver - (broomberg) - (2)
                     Greg got me going - (broomberg) - (1)
                         no big deal, just mainly diffs in Mephis vs Debian - (folkert)

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