Laptop ethernet won't work

[Olwe Melwasul]

In the meantime, I've hosed it up pretty bad and now it doesn't see it 
at all during boot, or with Network GUI. Any ideas?

Olwe Melwasul wrote:

> Got F2 (kernel 2.6.5-1.358) installed on my Presario 2100 and 
> dual-booting well with the original XP (BootItNG did the trick for 
> repartitioning the NTFS). But the modem doesn't work (Linuxant says 
> they have a driver) and the ethernet card won't do anything. It's the 
> built-in NatSemiconductor DP83815/816 10/100 MacPhyter PCI. It's eth0 
> and I've given it static IP of 192.168.0.1 and everything seems to be 
> fine. During boot it comes up and the Network GUI reports it "ok" and 
> "active". But the hub light is dead and no pinging gets through. Same 
> ethernet works perfect when I boot to XP. One tell-tale thing is on 
> shut down it reports "remaining active for wake-on-lan". Another odd 
> thing is according to the GUI, it gives "unknown" as the IRQ address. 
> XP says it's 11. Any ideas?
>
> Olwers
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