Paul Thompson wrote:
> A friend installed 8.04 and eth0 worked fine. After trying several
> experiments to get wireless working the system is now in a state where
> "ifconfig -a' does not report eth0. Perhaps drivers have been
> accidentally deleted?

Might want to look over and/or post to the newsgroup, the output of the
following terminal session commands:

lspci
lshw -C network
dmesg | grep eth0

>
> Also, his Dell Vostro 1000 has an AMD chip but the system is i586, could
> this be a problem? Has anybody got wireless working for this computer?

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices