damn dell

Forum: Networking
Topic: damn dell
started by: zeroZshadow

Posted by zeroZshadow on Sep. 05 2005,05:22

i have a dell 9100 with a standard network card.

every time i boot DLS from the cd i can't use internet, or network.

i tryed todo the carconfig thingy in the net menu, but it says i don't have a card.....

it should be a onboard one, can anyone help me out here??

Posted by skaos on Sep. 05 2005,09:33

Run "lspci" or "lspci -vv|more" (without quotes) in a terminal window to see if the kernel recognises the card. Then run "lsmod" to see if the module (driver in winspeak) for the card is loaded. If it's not, you have to find out which module to load and then load it with "modprobe name-of-module". If that works ok, you could try cardconfig again.

Posted by zeroZshadow on Sep. 05 2005,13:32

is all of that saved when i do this ones??

and if not on the cd, is it with the usb stick??

if not automaticly, is there a way to do it myself ?

Posted by zeroZshadow on Sep. 05 2005,14:06

i think DSL doesn't like dell

because after that lspci command i got a list of (what i think) is the hardware of my pc.

but behind everything was "unknown device" :P

behind my ethernet card was also this, i dunno what it means, but i might be something for u guys "27 dc rev 01"

and i don't get how it works with the modules (linux noob)

might there be any other linux type that fits on my 256MB usb key and i bootable that way??

Posted by clacker on Sep. 06 2005,13:00

zeroZshadow, I have also experienced great frustration with my Dell and the network card. 瓱y problem was that the driver I needed for the card wasn't included in DSL. 狢 used the hardware manager in Windows (it's under the control panel, system properties, hardware, network adapters) to find what controller I had. 狢 have a Broadcom NetXtreme 57XX Gigabit controller. 狢 had to find and compile my own drivers for it. 狢f you have that same controller, you can use the package I made if you download it from the DSL repository. Oncew it's loaded, choose the initialize bcm5700 from the right click menu and then choose System->Net Setup->netcardconfig and hopefully it will see your card.

Posted by zeroZshadow on Sep. 06 2005,16:27

well i have a differende card, but i DID found out that when linux boots, it gets ALLOT of "can't read" errors

mostely on device modules, that could be why all devices are unknown when i check in in the terminal :P

hope there is another way, because the embedded version works fine, but can't see my usb :P

Posted by zeroZshadow on Sep. 20 2005,19:05

CAN'T ANYONE HELP ME HERE?

WHY CAN'T MY PC READ THE CD OR WHATEVER??

stupid modules won't load on boot