I have an old E-Smith box and it is initializing the NIC. I have verified all the hardware is good and I have looked in the /PROC/pci file and it sees the NIC when it is in the system and of course when I remove it the NIC does not appear in the problem. When I do an 'ifconfig' I get info on the LO and nothing else. Ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx gets me an error that there is no such device same for eth1,2 ,3.........
I need command line information on what and where to check, there is no GUI with this. If someone could be so kind as to provide it I would be grateful.

Thank you in advance.
Sal

Please post the output of the following commands

lspci (lists pci devices)

lsmod (lists device modules)

dmesg | grep eth0
(dmesg is the screen output that you see at boot; grep searches for any occurrence of eth0)

I cannot easily post those results for various reasons. I appreciate your offer to help me out, however the box was hacked and is getting rebuilt. When I have time I will hook the hard drive back up and play around with it, but right now I need to get the appplication back on line.
Thanks