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eth0 not working

hi
i am trying to connect my laptop via eth0 to internet; i am not using a DHCP server.
I am trying to configure eth0 via the following command:

Code:

~#ifconfig eth0 my_ipaddress netmask 255.255.255.0 up

and i get the following error

Code:

~#SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

eth0: Error while getting interface flags: No such device

SCIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device

eth0: Error while getting interface flags: No such device

while network card has correctly worked during installation of operating system:
Debian (2.6.11).

Please give me a hint.
Thank you.

Do ifconfig -a and post results

i add here part of lspci output:

~#lspci
...
0000:02:00.0 Ehernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit
Ethernet (rev 01)
...

i looked for eth0 in /proc/modules but did not find it

Here is the output:

Code:

~#ifconfig -a

lo            Link encap:Local Loopback

              inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

              RX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

              TX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

              collisions:0 txquelen:0

              RX byts:9112 (8.8 KiB) TX bytes:9112 (8.8 KiB)



sit0          Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4

              NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1

              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

              collisions:0 txquelen:0

              RX byts:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0.0 (0.0 b)

The correct module to install should be tg3
but i heard Debian d not include Broadcom tg3 modules anymore for license problem or something like that, do you know anything about this?