No ethernet connection

Forum: Networking
Topic: No ethernet connection
started by: Mechcozmo

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Posted by Mechcozmo on Jan. 09 2005,07:42

I have a AV7600 motherboard made by VIA.  It has an onboard GigE port.  It works fine under WinXP ( )  

But under DSL, I get nuthin'.  I've tried pinging IPs that I know are valid... and nothing.  DSL seems to think that it cannot recognize my network card, for when I choose that option from the "start" menu (for lack of a better work) and then go to the networking (I think) and then the card setup option, it says that it cannot find a network card or that it isn't supported-- I forget which.

I am using the latest version of the BIOS (1006 I think-- just double checked it a week ago or so).

Any ideas?

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Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 10 2005,04:47

Your motherboard has a 3COM 3c940 Gigabit ethernet NIC.

These ports are not autodetected properly in KNOPPIX 3.4, and DSL 0.8.x and 0.9.x is based on KNOPPIX 3.4

A solution was posted here:

< http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=48576 >

So try this:

Open an xterminal and type:

sudo su
modprobe sk98lin

and then run the netcardconfig script.

Good Luck.

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Posted by Mechcozmo on Jan. 20 2005,00:40

Thanks!  It works now.  Any idea if/when this might be fixed
OR
how to auto-run those commands?

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Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 20 2005,17:20

My guess is that the newer version of knoppix will work properly and when DSL gets remastered from the newer version someday it will work out-of-the-box.

In the meantime, you can automate the process by using the backup/restore function in DSL and combine it with the /opt/bootlocal.sh script.

Read up on the documentation on how the backup/restore works or search the forums for keyword

filetool.lst

and search ALL FORUMS and FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER.

Before you do your backup, you need to edit your /opt/bootlocal.sh file with a text editor like beaver or nano and include these commands.

You can skip the "sudo su" line because /opt/bootlocal.sh is already run as user root.

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Posted by Mechcozmo on Jan. 21 2005,00:32

Quote (cbagger01 @ Jan. 20 2005,12:20)

My guess is that the newer version of knoppix will work properly and when DSL gets remastered from the newer version someday it will work out-of-the-box. In the meantime, you can automate the process by using the backup/restore function in DSL and combine it with the /opt/bootlocal.sh script. Read up on the documentation on how the backup/restore works or search the forums for keyword filetool.lst and search ALL FORUMS and FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER. Before you do your backup, you need to edit your /opt/bootlocal.sh file with a text editor like beaver or nano and include these commands. You can skip the "sudo su" line because /opt/bootlocal.sh is already run as user root.

Alright, I'll keep this in mind so that whenever my version of DSL finally gets running off of my USB flash drive I can do this.

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