Ethernet Troubles in trixbox
 

Hi all,

I just installed the trixbox disto on an eeepc (for my purposes, the eeepc is more than enough). However, the distro (which is based on CentOS 5.2) doesn't seem to have drivers for my ethernet card. The eth0 interface doesn't exist, in fact, when I run ifconfig, all I get is info for lo. iwconfig also gives me lo and some foolishness named sit0.

The following is the (relevant) output for lspci:

I don't really care about the wireless one, but I do need the wired one to work. Any help is appreciated, but please keep in mind that I am (for all intents an purposes) a newbie. I've run kubuntu that did everything for me (like mount stuff!) and I've never touched an rpm-based system.

Thank you!

Check lsmod to see if there is a driver loaded for your ethernet card.

Hi,

Thanks for that. lsmod doesn't seem to give any info about ethernet, but I can only see the latter part of it because the rest runs away to the top of the screen. How can I scroll up in the terminal? (See, I said I'm a newbie!)

Attansic Ethernet
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/...19236&forum=40


Atheros Wifi
Tthe OpenHal 10.5.6 driver from madwifi-project.org is used for this card, (The older kernel in RHEL/CENTOS, may be an issue here..)
http://madwifi-project.org/ticket/1192

Thank you for that. The second post has a link to an FTP site with a bunch of files (ftp://ftp.hogchain.net/pub/linux/att...tl2/centos5.2/). Any idea which of these rpms I need? Am I going to get rpm hell for my trouble? Thank you! :)

Don't know.. I saw repository names mentioned that you could add to your sources, so updates for the driver will automatically work.. re-read the posts in that thread. I think you will find it.

The problem with that is I don't have internet...it's kind of hard to rely on a repo to install drivers for a network card. Anyway, I'll test out some of those RPMs and will report back. Thanks.

Err yeah that's a valid point obviously if neither interface is working.. Not sure how I overlooked that fact.. :)

Once you do get everything working, research on how to make a backup image of your installation so if you ever need to start over you'll have an install cd with all your drivers loaded.

Yeah, definitely! I'm a bit busy right now and I put the eeepc away for a couple of weeks. I'll get back to this after my exams!

Hi everyone,
I decided to take a break from studying and got back to this. I installed the ceeentos rpms and moved the resulting atl2.ko to my /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.18.el5/kernel/drivers/net/atl2.ko (for some reason, the rpm shoved it into /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/atl2/atl2.ko). insmod atl2 tells me that the file already exists. Here are some relevant outputs (this will get lengthy):


modprobe -l...too long to post the whole thing, but I did a search on atl2 and only found this:
contents of /etc/rc5.d:
and finally, ifconfig (same old same old, still no eth):
As you can see, I'm still struggling. Any help greatly appreciated. =))

part of the issue could also be related to that old kernel trixbox is running... 2.6.18..

Why not try a more up to date distro, that will fully support your hardware, then install asterisk manually ?

Yeah, that's my next plan of attack: install ubuntu server and asterisk and freepbx (asterisk + freepbx = trixbox). I hear installing asterisk can be a real butt pain though (forget about doing it through apt or any equivalent), which is why I wanted a distro with everything pre-installed.

Only problem I had installing asterisk was that we bought Interface cards other than the Digium cards, and had to custom compile the drivers.. which of course didn't go smoothly. Other than that the install was not that painful.

Installed ubuntu jaunty this morning and asterisk + freepbx using this wonderful script. Network card worked out of the box due to the newer kernel. Configuration of asterisk is the hard part now, for some reason it hangs up all my calls...

EDIT: okay, everything works like a charm now. :)