L1 Attansic Network card not properly installed in Ubuntu Server

When installing ubuntu 8.10 from the server cd the installer stops when configuring the network with the following message

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No network interfaces detected

No network interfaces were found. The installation system was unable to find a network device.

You may need to load a specific module for your network card, if you have one. For this, go back to the network hardware detection step.
"""

When installation was continued no network was available
fixed (maybe)
add the following line to /etc/network/interfaces

iface eth0 inet dhcp

then do the following in the command line

$ sudo modprobe atl1
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
$ sudo dhclient eth0