Breezy install and live cd's do not detect network card.

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

Well, from all the responses I know everybody is holding their breath
waiting for the solution. ;-)

So here it is: I started the install cd with acpi=off and it detected the
network card.

Easy as!  :)

HTH someone else too.

On 4/9/06, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Well, I've spent the last few days trying to solve this. If you dig long
> enough on the internet you can find just about anything. ;)
>
> In order to get the built in ethernet to work, I have to build a module
> and load it. via provide the code.
>
> This has turned into quite an adventure. The install cd doesn't have all
> the packages to accomplish this (gcc3.4 for example) and the pc doesn't
> have a network connection. So I been searching the net and burning packages
> onto cd. Getting failed dependancies, searching for more packages and so on.
> But I think I finally got all the packages I needed.  :)
>
> First I tried building the module on this PC and just copying it over.
> That didn't work, the kernel complained and wouldm't load it. So I copied
> all the files over to build on the asus motherboard. Make said something
> along the lines that the default kernel doesn't allow this and I would have
> to build my own. I've actually gotten it to build but I can't get it to
> boot. I've tried:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelBuildpackageHowto
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelByHandHowto
> http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html
>
> Now I'm stumped again. Anybody have any ideas or suggestions on how to get
> this ethernet driver built and loaded into a kernel?
>
> I'm installing breezy on the pc and I got the source package
> linux-source-2.6.12 and gcc-3.4.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On 4/3/06, James Diehl <jms_diehl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > A lot of the Linux programs do not detect a network
> > card, or router.  My SUSE didn't when I installed it.
> > You have to manualy install the port info., and
> > product info. yourself.  Either in the system
> > directory file, or terminal.  You'll need to know what
> > the product name is, the port's being used, if it's
> > 10/100/1000, your serv. provider, and whatever else
> > you have.  You may have to ./makefile, to ./mkdir the
> > files necessary to store the info.  Look in the sys
> > directory file to see if there is a file already made.
> > Diehl, James
> >
> > --- rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem. As the subject says, I can't
> > > get my ethernet card
> > > detected. I have an Asus P5V800 motherboard with
> > > built in Realtek. I've also
> > > taken the card out of another pc (that happily runs
> > > ubuntu) and  it's still
> > > not detected.
> > >
> > > Aside from that, the install works.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions welcome.  :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Russ
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Russ
>



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Regards,
Russ
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