I new to the whole Linux install.

I installed Debian onto an old computer I had. During the installation process it couldn't find my Ethernet card. So I ignored that and finished the install. When it would reboot at the end of the starting cycle my screen would flicker and go to sleep (i assume when it tries to start Xserv)

I did some poking around on the internet and started in single user mode to try and fix it, starting with the Ethernet card.

I did a lspci -v and got nothing. no list.

I tried lspci -t and got -[0000:00]-

Best I can figure is Linux is not seeing PCI buss, please help.

hi,
just a through are you sure its linux it isnt you bios it might pay to check /restro default setting or even flash the chip and upgrade to teh latest version of firmware for the chip. also is there any physical damage to eth motherbored??

tries the restor defaults on the Bios, no luck there. I reasonable sure that the mother board is good, was running win2k before.

well the only other thing i could think of doing is to try a different version of linux

Any recommendations?

I wand to run a web server, mysql, and asterisks.

well nay otehr version of linux will do then you can just download apache for the the machine later. i hear goos things about opensuse

there is a sub domain of this site where you can download iso images of linux they have like 200 diffenret versions
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/

good luck

You might be better off playing around with a LiveCD version of a distro first. You can ensure that you don't have some odd hardware issue before you do an install.