Ubuntu installer can't setup network on Shuttle XS35GTV2

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a

Thanks

Also, make sure the connectivity lights are flashing on the interface.

Thanks for your reply!

I have now installed the server version of Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64. There's no light on the NIC nor the router flashing since the driver couldn't be loaded.
The Ubuntu installer warned me with a red screen when he wanted to set up the NIC.

The Debian installer had no problem setting it up.
But I'd like to stick with Ubuntu for this media player frontend (XBMC standalone).
That's why I'd like to install a minimal Ubuntu.

# lshw -C network
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: JMicron Technology Corp.
       physical id: 0.5
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.5
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 80:ee:73:1f:ef:df
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msix msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=jme driverversion=1.0.5 duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:17 memory:feaf4000-feaf7fff ioport:dc00(size=128) ioport:d800(size=256)
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: ioport:e800(size=256) memory:febfc000-febfffff

# lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

Btw: I use a 100 MBit/s router.
I read that there may be problems with Gigabit connection so that shouldn't be my problem.

What is XBMC standalone? XBMC is an application....

xbmc-standalone is the same as xbmc --standalone

From xbmc manpage:

       --standalone
              XBMC runs in a stand alone environment without a window manager
              and supporting applications. For example, that enables network
              settings.

Are you using this:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMC_Live

No, I'm using this:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu

From this XBMCbuntu guide I couldn't even do the first step (install minimal Ubuntu).
I wanted to install Ubuntu 10.04 netinstall and the installer couldn't setup the NIC and told my this with a red screen and an error message.

Tried Natty, or Oneiric to see if its friendlier there? The link I gave's distro is not supported here

I tried Oneiric without success.

Here a picture of the screen I get after choosing the keyboard layout in the install
http://666kb.com/i/bxwj71eo7kih0picp.jpg

It was the 32bit Oneiric installer from here:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso

Tried the desktop installer?

No. But the 10.04 server version.
I don't need a desktop environment.

Do they have different approaches to setup the NIC?