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On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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>> On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Mick wrote: |
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>>>> To read your PCI connected devices you need: |
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>>>> lspci -v |
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>>>> HTH. |
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>>> That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver |
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>>> it is using for what device. If it works while booted on the Live CD, |
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>>> then that driver is most likely what you need. Take the name of the |
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>>> driver, then search for it in menuconfig. You hit the "/" key to |
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>>> search. Its like the ? key without hitting shift. It should show you |
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>>> exactly where the driver is located so you can go enable it. Then you |
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>>> just recompile the kernel and copy it to /boot. |
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>>> This is what the output should look like: |
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>>> 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 |
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>>> MBit (rev 31) |
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>>> Subsystem: ARCHTEK TELECOM Corp Device 0008 |
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>>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 |
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>>> I/O ports at 9800 [size=256] |
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>>> Memory at df002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] |
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>>> [virtual] Expansion ROM at 88100000 [disabled] [size=256K] |
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>>> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 |
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>>> Kernel driver in use: dmfe |
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>>> The last line is the key. If I were searching for that driver, I would |
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>>> search for dmfe and enable it as built in or a module. |
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>>> If that command doesn't show the driver, then you may need to start with |
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>>> some of the other commands to see what you can test to get it working. |
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>>> Dale |
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>>> :-) :-) |
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>> I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got |
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>> similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a "3Com |
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>> Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)" and that "Kernel driver |
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>> in use: 3c59x". Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for |
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>> that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for |
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>> similar cards (one of which had "[Typhoon]" in the name). |
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>> However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything |
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>> works great. Thanks for all your help. |
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>> By the way, I have never had such great technical support before. I am |
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>> really amazed that within 12 hours, I had about 3 different ways of |
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>> fixing this, and was able to have it up and running within 45 minutes |
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>> of checking my email this morning. Wonderful! |
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>> Marcus |
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> Now I'm confused. I did a search here as well and it returned nothing |
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> matching that driver. This is a first for me. Has anyone else ever |
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> searched for a driver when you have the exact name and not get a match |
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> when the driver is actually there? I did a manual search and the driver |
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> is there. |
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> Glad you got the network working tho. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Yeah, I guess it's because you have to download that particular driver |
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separately? |
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Marcus |