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Aurora
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 Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:35 am Post subject: Dell sc420 Server + NIC |
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For some reason the NIC card is not recognized when I load the installer up...I've modprobed every one of the possible ethernet adapters to no avail. I've read in several places that it is possible to install Gentoo on this machine, and have found a few posts about it here on this forum (none answering the NIC question, though).
Anyone have any ideas? lsmod didn't show anything helpful.
Thanks!
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Hi Type
and post the output. This should tell us what type of NIC it is. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:12 am Post subject: |
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Sure...
lspci:
| Code: | | 2:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom corporation: Unknown device 1677 (rev 01) |
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From what I can find the module you are after is "tg3".
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Once that module is loaded you need to start the device. That is done by
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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
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Also you may want to take a look at
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http://www.mikehardy.net/linux_latitude_d800/#Ethernet
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Aurora
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| BitKeeper wrote: | From what I can find the module you are after is "tg3".
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Once that module is loaded you need to start the device. That is done by
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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
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Thanks a bunch for your help...that's interesting, as I was pretty sure that I went through all the modules in the list that the Live CD provides for ethernet adapters, and did a modprobe on each one. It's possible I skipped that one.
Either way, thanks again.
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That doesn't work for my system, same make/model/specs. All I get is a modprobe error and I have tried every other module I can.
I have found refferences to several different chipsets for this device and have tried eexpress, e1000, e100, bcm57* modules.
Every single one including the above tg3 fails.
Please help!
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