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On Tuesday 27 October 2009 23:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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> Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the |
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> link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name |
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> is, besides the fact that the name includes "Tornado". Also note that it |
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> worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd. |
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> To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after |
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> that, what driver do I need? |
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Typical tools used to probe devices and read the details of them are: |
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lshw |
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hwconf |
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To read your PCI connected devices you need: |
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lspci -v |
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If you have the correct drivers for your NIC then it will show up when you |
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run: |
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ifconfig -a |
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although it may not have an IP address unless dhcpcd is running. |
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If these commands are not on your current LiveCD, burn a Knoppix CD/DVD or |
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SystemRescueCd or equivalent. They have all these commands available and if |
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your NIC is working they would have most likely loaded the necessary module: |
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lsmod |
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will show the loaded modules. |
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Finally, dmesg | grep eth0 (if e.g. eth0 shows up in ifconfig) will show you |
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what you card is recognised as: |
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$ dmesg | grep -i eth0 |
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e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x40100000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:02:a5:b6:a1:8f |
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e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex |
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If as you say the Minimal CD works, then I recommend that you boot with that |
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and run the above commands making notes what is the NIC module the CD kernel |
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has loaded. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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