Some problems: WartyRC1 - HW Detection

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:03:19PM +1300, Pizbit wrote:

> HW detection failed to correctly identify the NIC, it should use the
> 8139too module (Nearest I could find in an lsmod was 8139cp)
> Unloading 8139cp and modprobing 8139too failed to get a network
> connection with /etc/networking/interfaces setup correctly, compared
> to known working one.

If it's loading the wrong module, that's fairly simple to fix, but if it
didn't work even when you loaded the correct module, that's a different
matter.  We'll need more information about how it failed.

> The sound was mis-configured, once some sound was sent to the card it
> keept repeating the same 2 seconds, not stopping until I logged out. -
> This is the same problem knoppix 3.4 has(forget how 3.6 handles it, I
> think the same way)

Which sound driver?  Has it worked correctly under any other kernels?  Send
exact version information.

> Noticed during all boots into Ubuntu errors along the lines of:
> modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehn.ko Operation not permitted
> modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting shpchp.ko Operation not permitted

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869

> USB did not appear to work either, plugged in a usb-mass-storage
> device(read mp3 player:D ) and it was not automounted as I thought it
> was supposed to from the reviews I've read, nor any /dev/sda1 .

Send dmesg output.

> There were an absurd amount of modules loaded, 'ipv6','fan' and
> 'thermal' plus many I havn't a clue about and appered to be unrelated
> to my HW. I noticed more than a few modules for my tvcard loaded
> however I only tried to load tvtime which was not present, forgot to
> test if there was xawtv and don't know the names of other viewers.

Not a bug.

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 - mdz