Network eth0 not loading in Evil Entity
 

I installed Evil Entity 0.25, no problems so far, but the network is not functional.

The boot messages are:

INIT: entering runlevel:3
Going multiuser...
Attempting to configure eth0 by contacting a DHCP server...
dhcpd[60]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: no such device

OK, I know the DHCP server is fine, and it looks like I don't have a network card...

There is nothing interesting or relevant in dmesg. Nothing in /var/log/messages.
In var/log/syslog, I have a couple of lines saying:

modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134

Running ifconfig finds only the loopback device.
Running netconfig, selecting use dhcp, it finds a network card which alledgedly uses the com20020.o module. It then claims to have set it up - but this is exactly what it does during installation, so unsurprisingly, this does not work.

However, netconfig does tell me the script should be in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
rc.modules calls rc.netdevice, which executes /sbin/modprobe com20020

Running /sbin/modprobe com20020 manually results in no reutrn messages. Does this mean everything is fine? Or the module wasn't found? Either way, it doesn't work!

I am unsure of what to try next. Any advice would be appreciated.

thanks

Jim