ubuntu and pclinux os Jr.

[BurntCpu]

I installed ubuntu about a month ago (took me a month to get my java script plugins to work)

Well I decided to try pclinux os Jr. 'cause it looked so pretty. Well in ubuntu the ethernet

worked in both live cd and full install but in pclinux it doesn't. Can't find a linux driver for it

and no help in pclinux forums. ** My question is; if it works in ubuntu couldn't I just port

the required files over to pclinuxos from the live cd or full install of Ubuntu ?

If so, how? I've checked the cd but can't seem to figure out what's what.


*(running an asrock dual sata board )
Ubuntu list it as ULI fast ethernet
Asrock site & pclinux forums list it as RTL8201CL

any help would be appreciated TIA

 

[postmortemIA]

You can't do that, in linux you have to compile everything, not simply copy the 'files'.

The prettier distro it is, the less useful it is. I stand behind that - RedHat might not be "cool", but everything works how it should on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And many other distros are just waste of your and their own time.

As for your problem, you need to set up card as root using some network manager that comes with distro..it does come with one, right?

 

[BurntCpu]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
You can't do that, in linux you have to compile everything, not simply copy the 'files'.

The prettier distro it is, the less useful it is. I stand behind that - RedHat might not be "cool", but everything works how it should on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And many other distros are just waste of your and their own time.

As for your problem, you need to set up card as root using some network manager that comes with distro..it does come with one, right?

well it does come with a network manager but that wont't help because the card has to
be working. hardware manager list only 6 realtec cards none of which works for me.

 

[nweaver]

lspci and see if the card is listed (and as what name)

lsmod to make sure the driver is loaded
get the latest kernel, or kernel sources and roll your own to ensure the driver is included

 

[BurntCpu]

I tried quite a few drivers from from harddrake configuration tool. Strangely enough sis drivers seems to work .I am posting using that right now.
no errors or strange behaviors yet.
Thanks for the input guys

 

[Nothinman]

You can't do that, in linux you have to compile everything, not simply copy the 'files'.

Not always, hell binary distributions pretty much just 'copy the files' if you consider downloading/extracting the package as copying. Kernel modules are trickier because they need to match the kernel that you're running, but there's nothing stopping you from installing one distribution's kernel on another by hand.

The prettier distro it is, the less useful it is. I stand behind that - RedHat might not be "cool", but everything works how it should on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And many other distros are just waste of your and their own time.

"As it should" is subjective, IMO RHEL and FC are extremly unusable in their default setups.