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I installed Ubuntu today and i think i screwed up
I created my linux partitions when i re-installed windows XP Professional, however, i forgot to install some of my motherboard drivers "network and sound " before i installed Ubuntu. During the installation it didn't pick up my network adapter. Its because i didn't install the drivers? Right? That's what i think. I am a linux newbie and don't no how to re-install my network adapter in linux. Can anyone help me please????Other than that i had no other problems...
I created my linux partitions when i re-installed windows XP Professional, however, i forgot to install some of my motherboard drivers "network and sound " before i installed Ubuntu.
If you are refering to windows drivers, they have nothing to do with linux. You may have to compile a module in the kernel to get your network card and sound working.
if you type the command lspci it will list the hardware PCI bus scan information which tells you (or us) which modules you need when compiling a kernel. if you type lsmod you can see the modules already loaded. It may simply be that the module you need is compiled but not loaded, in which case you'd use the command insmod <module name>. If you can post the output of lspci and lsmod, I can suggest the next steps in getting your system up and running.
I've got good news and bad news. The good is that I think I've got the network card figured out. The bad is I can't tell anything about the sound card from that output.
My 2.6.11 kernel is patched with several different patches, so a more recent stock kernel may have better and more stable choices, but if you compile these into your kernel, I'm guessing it will work
Device Driver -> Networking Support -> Ethernet (1000Mbit) -> Marvell Yukon Chipset (deprecated)
If can you tell me the make and model of the motherboard, I'll look it up at on web and see if I can get the sound card info.
Well, usually a motherboard manufacturer will specify the chipset of their audio processor, but all I could find is that Intel calls the onboard audio for your motherboard the "Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem"
If this is new enough, there may not be any support for it yet, but I don't know that for sure. If you can look at the motherboard's audio chipst and post any chipset model numbers or versions, maybe that will help someone, but I've hit a wall with Intel here.
i managed to do a networkless install of gentoo after a couple of attempts, got to the point of compiling my kernel (manual) with all the nessasary modules (3com509 for my NIC) That all went fine, reboot fine, lilo worked perfectly. My net connection is ADSL 2mb, and i use a Sparkcom router/modem (PPPoE) so i installed rp-pppoe and dhcpcd set them up with all the relevent info and edited /etc/config.d/net accordingly and went for an adsl-start. This timed out so i ran adsl-statusand got: adsl-status: link is down (cant read pppoe PID file /var.run/-adsl.pid.pppoe)
i had a look in the above mentioned file and it was empty, does anyone know if there any thing that needs to be put into it?
Using ifconfig eth0 finds my card after i've used insmod <module_name> but i have to insmod each time i boot up. Also when i run dhcpcd, the lan port 1 light on my router modem blinks and ifconfig eth0 registers a few TX kilobytes so the interface is working.
For the record, the addresses of the nameservers in resolv.conf are correct. My username and password in pap-secrets are correct. At my wits end with this one cant see anything else that i could do to remedy the situation, i have studied all relevent gentoo documentation and i really dont wanna use the precomplied package disk so any help would be fantastic.
just an update on my situation. I recompiled my kernel making the 3c509 driver compile into the kernel instead of as a module so interface eth0 is working fine. Still for the life of me cannot get my connection running. Starting to think that it might be a problem with the software on my modem (in flash).
I first got the router/modem up and running using a browser to view and edit the configuration so i'm gonna install some packages of the grp disk and see if there i s anything i need to change. For the record my router/modem configuration works under other OS's, so i'm not holding my breath. Any help would be fantastic.
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