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when i run Ultimate Edition 2.6 gamers off the live cd i have eth0, loopback and wireless just fine.
but when i install it to my hard drive i only have loopback and wireless. it does not see my earther net card!
when i run ifconfig - a this is what i get

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:3104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:698388 (698.3 KB) TX bytes:698388 (698.3 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:de:83:bf:a3
inet addr:192.168.1.244 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::218:deff:fe83:bfa3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:880080 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:223466 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:640236696 (640.2 MB) TX bytes:28949388 (28.9 MB)

Hi arctic_drifter and welcome to the forum,

First we need to know what ethernet adapter you have so if you'll open a terminal and run

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lspci -nn

and post the results for the ethernet adapter we will have a better idea of what's going on.

it is Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 -B0 100base-tx

I have exactly the same problem on Ultimate Edition 2.7. Has this issue been resolved yet? This problem is keeping me from using Ultimate Edition, which is otherwise awesome.

Hello PPL.

It is well known the issues with Broadcom.

But you can try to download the Driver from here:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/4401.php

Unzip the file and try to install the Driver.