I am a Linux Newbie. I have installed OpenSuse 11 32 bit on my system. After installation Linux did not detect my Network Card. When I run Network Information my network device is displayed as Loopback Interface (lo). When I select Ethercard eth0 from the dropdown I cannot save this settings.

How can I set my Ethernet card?

Please help me.

Give more information like make of the card and if it is onboard or pci card.

Post the output of lspci

The output of lspci is

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810 GMCH (Graphics Memory Controller Hub) (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA USB Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)

You need dmfe module. Search the web for it. I havent used the card but some googling shows that it is supported on linux.

http://www.opendrivers.com/categoryc...oad-page0.html

Look out if your card is listed there.

After searching in Google I came up with this help

"This is a common problem with the Davicom Tulip Ethernet Card. In Suse [and some other OS's] it comes with the tulip driver and the dmfe driver. For some reason Suse downloads the tulip driver by default which doesn't work so you need to change to the dmfe driver. Try [as root]:

# rmmod tulip
# rmmod dmfe
# modprobe dmfe"

I tried this and it worked. My Internet started but when I restarted my system I could not connect to Internet. So I had to repeat the same steps.

How can I make this solution work automatically!

To run commands at boot you can edit /etc/rc.local file and add the commands that you want to execute at boot.

Thanks for the help.