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Ethernet does not work
Soe:
Despite having used Tiny Core before successfully (many years ago) on an old Toshiba laptop I am a beginner, so please forgive my ignorance. My computer died a few weeks back. I have 'borrowed' my wife's work laptop to help me with my task - she is not thrilled with this. I have no administrator access to her machine.
Now I am trying to set up Linux on a Dell Inspiron 530. I managed to put Windows XP on its and I would like to set up dual boot eventually. I have made a live Coreplus USB which I can boot to. However the ethernet card is not working. I have no wifi hardware. I do not really know what I am doing and I do not know how to add components to Coreplus.
From researching I have found out how to get this info:
cpuinfo: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 quad CPU Q6600 @ 2400GHz.
lspci : Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connector (rev 02)
Can anyone help me with this please?
Thankyou.
Juanito:
If you check dmesg is there an error about missing firmware?
--- Code: ---dmesg | grep -i firmware
--- End code ---
Soe:
Hello Juanito. Thanks for the reply.
Over the past few days I've typed dmseg a number of times and always got the same response - "not found" and I assumed it was not in this version of Linux.
But now I see it is supposed to be dmesg. doh....
So if I type the correct command I do get back this
ACPI: OSL: Resource conflict; ACPI support missing from driver?
so maybe that is a hint?
Juanito:
Does lsmod show that the e1000 driver is loaded?
If not, try sudo modprobe e1000
Soe:
lsmod reports (amongst other things)
--- Code: ---module size used by Not tainted
...
acpi_cpufreq 12280
e1000e 122880 0.
ptp 29489 1 e1000e
...
--- End code ---
I assume that means it is not used?
[Edit] Added code tags. Rich
sudo modprobe e1000 returns nothing.
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