network adapters not detected booting with SL 5.1 64 bits

[ccagnoli]

Hi!
sorry for my english..

I have a problem running SL 5.1 KDE 64 bits... booting with LiveDVD the network adapter is not detected (wired or wireless). I try installing.... the instalation finished ok... but without network adapters detected.

The strange thing is that I have already installed a SL 4.1 64 bits and all is working fine... I can use my wired adapter or I can connect using WIFI.

My network adpaters are:
Attansic Technology Corp. L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Laptop: Acer Aspire 6930G

thank you so much for your help.

[albfneto]

is an ADSL wired network?
Please, with some networks, Wicd net manager works better than networkmanager.
1) First, try to configure the network with this command:

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 sudo net-setup

2) If this not works, try to install WICD.

If you do not have net connection in this time, you may use other computer, download wicd from the link of the Entropy Repository:

http://www.sabayon.org/packages

Save the file in your pendrive or in a CD, and then, in your computer, install it using the graphical installer Sulfur, in the menu option "File" "install from binary"...

Wicd generally works good for both wired or wireless connections.

[ccagnoli]

I already have tried with net-setup and nothing happen.

I have installed WICD (comes by default with SL 5.1) but I think the problem is something more basic like that the hardware is not recognized or something like that. For example if I run lspci the output is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9300M GS (rev a1)
07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)


but if I run ifconfig the output is:

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:260 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:260 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:37248 (36.3 KiB) TX bytes:37248 (36.3 KiB)

so... there is no eth0 or wlan0 device...

[Fitzcarraldo]

I have a problem with SL networking on only one specific PC (Acer Aspire SA90 tower PC): the Ethernet (it only has wired networking hardware) does not work when I boot a SL LiveDVD until I lower the MTU:

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# ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492

All my other PCs work fine without needing to do this. Anyway, try the above command to see if it gets the wired Ethernet controller working, just in case it is the same problem.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Something else to try.

Do you have the following files?:

/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-sabayon/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.ko
/lib64/modules/2.6.33-sabayon/kernel/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.ko

(replacing the kernel version number to match the version you are using).

Try the following as root user:

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modprobe /lib64/modules/2.6.33-sabayon/kernel/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.ko
ifconfig eth0 up