Net w/ 1.4 rc4 autoconfigured, missed on initial reboot

rosskevin · Last edited by rosskevin on Wed Apr 16, 2003 3:04 am; edited 1 time in total

I was able to install 1.4 rc4 livecd with stage 3 tarball. Everything was good, including the network (woohoo). Upon reboot, no network, not eth0.

/lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net contains one file, dummy.o

dmesg says I am using the Intel 82559 w/ ifchip i82555

I think I missed the first part of the x86 installation #21, modifying the /etc/modules.autoload

How do I restore my network module? Where from? How do I make it sticky on reboot?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin Ross
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rosskevin · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:44 am Post subject:

BTW- I booted up tonight to try again, and everything works. This stuff is still black magic to me, hopefully I'll be enlightened soon.
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rosskevin · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:21 am Post subject:

on track to be the longest running single user thread

So, my network dies at some point after reboot. I just keep rebooting, then working some more with some package emerges.

What am I missing? What information can I provide that would help diagnose the problem?
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Valen · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 3:04 am Post subject:

lspci will give a list of stuff sitting on the PCI bus
lsmod will give a list of the modules you currently have loaded
modprobe <module name> will load a module with dependency checking
ifconfig will give a list of your interfaces (eg: eth0)

How exactly does the network die, check the output of ifconfig to see if it is still configured correctly.

I'm not sure how much help I was, but I just thought I'd thwart your efforts in creating the longest single user thread

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Good luck.

rosskevin · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 4:39 am Post subject:

Well, it's still working.

BTW- lsmod shows no modules, and I cannot find lspci anywhere on the drive.

If a module showed on lsmod, I could just add that network module to the modules.autoload right?

Until it happens again, I guess I'll just 'hang tough' like the new kids.
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Valen · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 6:13 pm Post subject: