ok,once again pulled the cord out of the main computer... me sister asked me to fix the net... i told her to mount the eth0 card... 10 minutes later, she came back and asked me to fix it... i was half suprised she actually typed mount ethernet, mount eth0, ifdown -a etc... she had been watching me type some commands in on me laptop...

i then told her to plug it in...

somehow me face now hurts