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Old 10-16-2005, 11:05 PM   #1
jonnyblinux
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intergraded 3com ethernet card not recognized


Hello,
I just installed Slackware 10.1 on a new system. The system has a Pentium D, 160 gig SATA harddrive, at install I loaded the sata.i kernal, and pulled the kernal from cd 1. Fine and dandy, loads up kde desktop, but no internet connection, If I type dmesg |grep eth0 I get nothing, If I type ifconfig I get local Loopback, If I type route I only see

loopback * 255.0.0.0 and nothing pertaining to my ethernet card.

One issue I ran into was, this pc has USB 2.0 ports. 7 of them. I had to recompile the kernal for USB 2.0 Experimental. Now the mouse works as well as any usb device, however since that point no ethernet card is recognized. I only have the one ethernet card. So I'm thinking the USB 2.0 setting is messing up the ethernet setting. Just a guess. I did
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.29
make menuconfig
Went to USB support and made the EHCI HCD (USB 2.0 Support) bootable.
Im using kernal 2.4.29 so I did
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
took about 15 minutes to install all the modules, Im thinking It used the bare.i kernal or settings from it when I did the bzImage, thinking this because earlier i had to specify sata.i for the kernal because of my sata harddrive.

Next I did
cp /usr/src/linux/arc/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/USB_drive_kernal
Something I noticed with that is.. My system settings say I have a i686 would that be the problem? I tried sticking in the i686 instead of i386 and it says "cannot stat".

Next I did
mkdir /mnt/USBdrive
chmod 700 /mnt/USBdrive

Picoed
pico /etc/fstab
typed in /dev/sda2 (my bootable drive) auto user,rw,noauto 0 0

saved and rebooted, boots up fine except for Nic. Any ideas?
oh and also I have verified an internet connection with the same ethernet wire to my laptop. Definetly not the router. Firewall is turned off.

Last edited by jonnyblinux; 10-16-2005 at 11:08 PM.
 
Old 10-16-2005, 11:20 PM   #2
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/arch/i386 is the right directory. it sounds like maybe the module isn't loaded. what kind of nic is it, chipset, etc.? (or motherboard?) you could do /sbin/lspci -v if you're not sure.
 
Old 10-17-2005, 12:06 AM   #3
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no luck

all I know is its made by 3com the tech support at dell told me that. Its intergraded into the motherboard.

/sbin/lspci -v produces this

Ethernet Controller: Intel Corp. : Unknown device 27dc
I tried the command you typed it brought up a big list of nothing specific, I know its a 3com intergraded. Its ran before with windows and worked fine. I did run pkgtool went to current but didnt work.

In make menuconfig
under Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
I have

* Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
* 3COM cards
* Western Digital / SMC cards '
* Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards

Everything else is either M or blank

I dont know if Western Digital and 3com are seperate businesses or card types but that could be where the conflict is, what do you think?
 
Old 10-17-2005, 01:11 PM   #4
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Re: no luck

i would enable everything under 3com and every intel chipset with * (not M), recompile the kernel, and try again. if that doesn't work, you'll have to do more research on exactly what kind of chipset it is to see if linux supports it. it might not. you could also try booting a knoppix CD and see if it works there and if you get more info about it. gl
 
Old 10-17-2005, 05:49 PM   #5
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swap

I enabled everything under 3com and everything under intel, recompiled kernal, no luck, however im wondering if I should poing the root = /dev/sda to /dev/sda1 because 1 is my linux swap partition. Would that make sense? Also wondering if I need to add a line to fstab for the ethernet card.

Heres what I have in Fstab

/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noaut,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/USBdrive auto user,rw,noauto 0 0

Last edited by jonnyblinux; 10-17-2005 at 05:55 PM.
 
  


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