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Hushh..Finally managed to access net in UBUNTU..
As an experienced person I can tell you,if you're buying a computer with an NVIDIA lan card it it...beware. You may never find a driver for it. The LED in the LAN socket will go on blinking ,saying, "Why did you buy this computer?Why?Why?" I wasted six months searching on the internet for the lan drivers,(I've Coppaq v3155AU).
HP website is useless. They have all drivers,quick-launch button's drivers, battery check drivers, wireless lan drivers...but NO ETHERNET DRIVER!
Oh,and these HP service centers. When I called them,my call was transferred to atleast 6 peoples after which they started asking me "Which OS do you have?""WindowsXP""WHICH SERVICE PACK DO YOU HAVE?" WTF.I mean what difference will it make??"Go to this and this hp website." I told them I've already gone there,but they couldn't believe me. I asked them directly "Is my comp having a lan card or not?"They said there must be.Since you have a lan socket;)But they couldn't tell the maker of the driver.(This is rather tricky part which I came to know latter. Unless you have a driver, your lan card will not show up in Device Manager. It will be listed under 'other devices')
After someone's suggestion,I bought a chinese usb-to-lan converter for Rs.600 ; which worked fine for 2 months before blowing off. (Well not literally.It got overheated.). I had no other option but to pray..
Then one lucky day, I found that one of my friends had same comp as mine. I asked him whether he had lan drivers,and voila! He had them.Which of his friends had given him..LOL! From the driver he gave me, I learnt that it was 'NVIDIA nForce network controller driver'. I still don't understand why can't HP give an http:// address of NVIDIA site for the lan cards?? (Did you know that HP site has won awards for being Best Website for Users..Bullshit!)

Two days before I installed UBUNTU. (that will be a rather long story,sometime later). the same problem haunted me once again....SIOCGIFFLAGS! NO SUCH DEVICE. Thankfully there are so many Linux geeks out there to help you on the net. I'll just tell you the trick..
In the terminal type in sudo dhclient eth0 .And it will work.

P.S. Does anybody know about lan drivers for Compaq Presario V6138? My friend needs it.Thanks.