Trying to use clonezilla (debian pkg) and for severaly machine the network interface is not recognized. Ifconfig only returns the loopback address. How do I manually install the drivers for the nic card. Assuming i find the linux capatable drivers, found one so far.

I don't know how to install drivers on linux, whats the command.


thanks for any help.

Hi 81griffIT, We'll need to see the output from the following please.To answer your question, installing drivers or modules varies greatly depending on the device and the driver. If the device is supported by current kernel modules it can be as simple as this.If you have to download and install drivers you should pay close attention to any readme, install files, or howto's available for that particular driver. Hope that helps.
Good luck. ;-)

I downloaded the drivers and extracted, could it be as easy as # modprobe defines

that file "defines" is in the root of the extracted files and there are several folders.

What is the command to output to a file? For the lsmod and lspci, need to put onto a key and copy from another machine.

thanks

What drivers did you download and from where? I'll wait for the output from the ls commands before any more suggestions.
Good luck. ;-)

Driver for the Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet Adapter modules for Linux 2.6.24 on x86

On a search for Debian Packages page, I know clonezilla is debian base.

Looking back I may need the package for P4 instead of x86 I really don't want to give up on linux but this is fraustrating.

thanks for all the help. If i can undersatnd this i need it to work with "Marvel Gigabit adapter too"

I don't believe the device is supported by the kernel. "Ethernet controller : device unkown"


Can this be fixed myself (learning how to install drivers) or is this something i have to hope gets picked up in the next release of clonezilla?

I'm going to echo my last post. If you'll post the information I've asked for I may be able to help you. Otherwise I'm just guessing as to what device you have, what driver package you've downloaded, whether or not the proper modules/drivers are loaded, etc. It's a shot in the dark until I have some more information.
Good luck. ;-)

lsmod

dm_snapshot
dm_mirror
dm_mod
jfs
xfs
fuse
tsdev
parport_pc
i2c_i801
rtc
i2c_core
iTco_wdt
serio_raw
psmouse
pcspkr
snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm
snd_timersnd
soundcore
intel_agp
snd_page_alloc
agpgart
evdev
squashfs
loop
unionfs
nls_iso8859_1
nls_cp437
vfat
fat
ide_cd
cdrom
sd_mod
piix
ide_core
ati_piix
ati_generic
lbatat
scsi_mod
ehci_hcd
uhci_hcd
usbcore
thermal
processor
fan

lspci show

Ethernet controller : unknown device 1969:2048

this happens for an Atheros Fast Ethernet L2, its an onboard nic

also for Marvell Gigabit(but i'll worry about that if i get this working

Sorry for the delay

As best I can decipher from your information this is the driver you're looking for. From some reading you may have better luck with the Marvell card.
Good luck. ;-)

Thank you so much for your help. I guess as a newbie, my next question is.....

can someone point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to install drivers in linux?


thanks again for all of your help

Sorry for the delay. I think I understand your problem now. I've downloaded and had a look at the driver files. There are no instructions included. I did contact the developer for some instructions and haven't heard back yet. Some Googleing has produced this.I hope that is all there is to it. This is an example of what I mentioned earlier that all installations aren't the same.
Good luck. ;-)

thanks for all your help. I will give this a shot as soon as i have some free time. I'll post back and let you know how i make out.

thanks again.

ok, i think i'm getting closer. after this command

# tar jxvf atl2-2.0.4.tar.bz2

i get "cannot change ownership to uid 4465,guid 4465 operation not permitted"

for each file. Once finished ls shows those files in a directory "atl2-2.0.4"

no atl2.ko file is listed though.

I'm doing this as root, is it at all related to using a live usb key?

You shouldn't have the .ko file until you make it. Try running make and see how that goes.
Good luck. ;-)