Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop
Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller (ethernet card)
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I've had Linuxmint 13 Cinnamon installed and running on a Toshiba Canvio 750GB portable HD for months now. It used to work fine and the ethernet was easy to configure and use. I have no router; just an ethernet cable from my laptop to my ADSL modem.
I haven't booted from the portable HD for a while, so when I did boot from it this morning, I got the latest update, and that was a horrible mistake. I'll just talk about the ethernet problem here though.
I apparently lost all the info about my ethernet card (wireless card is disabled). Hope the following helps.
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contents of /etc/network/interfaces
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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
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output from inxi -N command
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Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
Card-2: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11a/b/g driver: wl
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output from ifconfig -a (as root)
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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:548 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:548 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:40672 (40.6 KB) TX bytes:40672 (40.6 KB)
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output from nm-tool command
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NetworkManager Tool
State: disconnected
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In Network window:
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Wired
Cable unplugged
Hardware Address AA:BB:CC:DD:55:66:77:88
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My ethernet connection still works fine everywhere but this Mint installation.
and after thinking about all the other problems the update caused, I just formatted the partition and installed Mint 14 Cinnamon. It's too soon to say much about how Nadia works on my portable HD.