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scriptkiddie
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 Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 4:56 pm Post subject: Laptop & eth0 |
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I have a Dell Laptop.. its an old one and I have it connected to the work t3 by plugging in the ethernet cable to the docking station.
Everything works fine as long as I am in the liveCD... but once I reboot, it will not connect to the internet?  I copied over the resolv.conf file
Can anyone help? |
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Liathus
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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I am guessing that when you compiled your kernel during the installation you either didn't enable the driver needed for you network card, or you made it as a module and didnt add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4
Another possibility is that you didn't configure /etc/conf.d/net correctly. Also make sure that you added net.eth0 to the default run-level by typing
rc-update add net.eth0 default
Hopefully this helps somewhat. |
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scriptkiddie
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not good with my laptop networking stuff.. I am with the macs but not the PC latops.
I compiled Dell Laptop support and I am using dhcp here at work... what all should be compiled into the kernel? |
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Liathus
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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well, under the network devices section you need to add support for the network device your laptop uses. There are a few ways you could do that. You could boot the live cd again and do a lsmod and look for the network driver that was loaded. Or you could so some google searches for your laptop and find out what module you need.
Perhaps the easiest solution would be to use the genkernel method of configuring your kernel. That will give you basically the same kernel that was used in live cd. |
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digital diesel
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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well your resolv.conf file is just your DNS settings
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root@localhost # cat > /etc/resolv.conf
$DNS_SERVER_1
$DNS_SERVER_2
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(^C control c to exit)
Then if you want you scan do somethign like:
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root@localhost # modprobe *
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if that doesn't work, try this:
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root@lcoalhost # less /proc/pci
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then try to find the proper module that works w/ your ethernet card insmod $MOD_NAME |
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vetediablo
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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What model of laptop & docking station do you have? I'm running a Dell Latitude CPiA, with a C/Dock, and I'm pretty sure that the other models of the docking station also use the 3Com "Vortex" ethernet driver. It is 3c59x.o if you compile it as a module. It should be under the Network devices section in menuconfig (sorry I can't be more exact, I'm at work and away from my laptop), under the 10/100 ethernet settings. Select "y" or "m" to the 3Com option, and a list of 3Com cards will pop up. The Vortex is on the bottom. From there, recompile your kernel following the directions in the install guide, and you should be home free. Good luck!  |
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wmgoree
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:44 pm Post subject: What should be compiled into the kernel |
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| oubipaws wrote: | | I compiled Dell Laptop support and I am using dhcp here at work... what all should be compiled into the kernel? |
I just had this problem...
To find out what kernel support you need, do something like this from the LiveCD
compare that list to
| Code: | | ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net |
(Do both those before you chroot onto your hard drive.)
Any names that are in both lists, you should compile into your kernel (or compile as a module).
Hope that helps...
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uziel
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| vetediablo wrote: | | I'm running a Dell Latitude CPiA, with a C/Dock, |
...and I was wondering - did you have any luck with hot-docking your laptop? Got a CPiA and C/DockII here - I can only get the docking ethernet/scsi/whatnot to work when I boot the laptop docked. A hot un-dock will mess up the PCI bridge, leaving all values for the bridge itself and the PCI hardware in the dock set to ffff. I used to have APM support w/ BIOS A02 working, including hot-docking et al. but wanted to try out ACPI support provided by newer BIOS versions. Now it's A15 and hot-docking won't work even with a totally ACPI-free, APM-enabled kernel. Just wanted to ask, do you have any pointers for me? I'm about to try and leech any BIOS version from A02 to A15, and sort of run a regression test...
BTW, for the shpchp module to load properly, I had to fix the DSDT by adding the _BBN to the PCI bus - but even then, re-docking would not yield any improvement. The undock-request button has no effect whatsoever, and the docking indicator LED won't shine on me anymore after some blinking attempts ; )
Thanks in advance,
Chris |
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