What linux os' automatically setup Marvell Gig Eth0

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: drag
ya.. maybe it's unable to detect the nic card for some reason.

While booted up in the ubuntu (or debian) install cdrom you should be able to switch to console by going ctrl-alt-f2 (or similar) and get a command line.

from there you might be able to do things like 'lspci' to see listed pci devices and be able to modprobe or at least insmod the module.

I am not sure all of what is aviable on the install cdroms though.. but you should be able to get the networking going manually if you have to. I've had to do that a couple times in the past.

Or one could just use Knoppix and see what shows up.
Beats installing an entire distro just to see if it picks up the NIC or to be able to run lspci

 

[Doh!]

I'm sure you''ve already checked the bios settings. It doesn't hurt to check it one more time.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: drag
ya.. maybe it's unable to detect the nic card for some reason.

While booted up in the ubuntu (or debian) install cdrom you should be able to switch to console by going ctrl-alt-f2 (or similar) and get a command line.

from there you might be able to do things like 'lspci' to see listed pci devices and be able to modprobe or at least insmod the module.

I am not sure all of what is aviable on the install cdroms though.. but you should be able to get the networking going manually if you have to. I've had to do that a couple times in the past.

Or one could just use Knoppix and see what shows up.
Beats installing an entire distro just to see if it picks up the NIC or to be able to run lspci

I ment that you can run a shell from the actual Ubuntu install cdrom (which I suppose he already had a copy off). You don't have to actually get the OS installed to get to a shell.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: drag

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: drag
ya.. maybe it's unable to detect the nic card for some reason.

While booted up in the ubuntu (or debian) install cdrom you should be able to switch to console by going ctrl-alt-f2 (or similar) and get a command line.

from there you might be able to do things like 'lspci' to see listed pci devices and be able to modprobe or at least insmod the module.

I am not sure all of what is aviable on the install cdroms though.. but you should be able to get the networking going manually if you have to. I've had to do that a couple times in the past.

Or one could just use Knoppix and see what shows up.
Beats installing an entire distro just to see if it picks up the NIC or to be able to run lspci

I ment that you can run a shell from the actual Ubuntu install cdrom (which I suppose he already had a copy off). You don't have to actually get the OS installed to get to a shell.

Ah, true dat

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: krevo
and just another note...



Why is it that there are so many people here who try and persuade people to not bump threads, to search meaninglessly through age-old threads, and act like web forums gurus? I just needed a simple answer, and yes, I might be a little impatient, but please understand that this forum will not go under do to a little bumpage and a couple measly double topics. Why can't everyone here be as friendly as many small tech related forums. My overall opinion of Anandtech as a whole is it's filled with overly stuck up tech snobs and smartasses. It shouldn't be this way here, of all places. I recommend many people to this forum as a means of having many brains come together to solve complicated tech issues, and it seems like they all come back to me about the jerks to shun them away. God, just chill out and be glad you have a place to come together with so many others who enjoy all things technological.


/end rant



*waits for nobody to respond because they're afraid they won't be accepted by the "community" *

answer every post here for a few days. After the 30th or so "what linux distro should I choose" or "Windows blue screens" or "can I install windows on 2 machines" threads you answer, you will be prone to asking a poster to use the "search" function, and possibley the "google" function

Why should I have to spend time rewriting the same answer, when you can't be bothered to spend your time searching for it.

 

[n0cmonkey]

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