Some problems: WartyRC1 - HW Detection

[Pizbit]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:27:07 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
I could ping the lan IP I had assigned it but nothing on the network,
I gave up experimenting because I wanted to watch some tv:)
ifconfig showed nothing in/out for eth0, but several MiB for the
loopback, I should have copied the dmesg stuff I saw when searching
for stuff for the USB(note to do so next time taken.)
Are there any commands to find out more infomation about the network
situations I can try next time? I only know the basics.

> > 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.
It loaded via82cxxx and numerous snd_ modules. In my current kernel
config (2.6.7) I have in a grep for "snd" (all the ones not commented
out):

CONFIG_SND=y
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM=y
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y
CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=y
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y
CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=y

Ahh, I see here via82xx as opposed to via82cxxx that Ubuntu loads.
> 
> > 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
> 
Just mentioned it in case it was relevent to the other problems.

> > 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.
None. Yes, literally none. Nor can I remember the USB-Storage-Mode-On
light on the mp3 player turning on as it should do.

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Sorry for a lack of verbosity:( Next time - because there always a
next time!:D I'll dump everything I tried and saw into some text files
including the lsmod.