HD Install :: No network (eth0)

Hi everybody,

I'm facing the same problem as descibed above. As recommended I added the boot option pnpbios=off. Unfortunately without success.

It looks like that the boot sequence / parameters differs between the LIVE-CD and the HD installation. The network card is well recognized while booting the LIVE-CD. As soon as the system boots from HD, it fails ... Looking to the loaded modules when booting from HD, leads to the missing "pcnet32" module which is successfully loaded on the LIVE-CD. Loading the module manualy with "insmod pcnet32" causes an error message. Caused by /kernel/drivers/net/b44.o. This implies a problem with the settings/parameters and not the module itself ....

I'm looking forward to hear from you.

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Robert has replied to my post... looks like the same issue..
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=17253

"add nodhcp to grub"

This didn't work in my case.

Hi,

thanks for getting looking into this. Unfortunately, this does not solve the problem at all. It looks like, loading pcnet32 fails. Could this be related to minirt23.gz

Thanks in advance ...

Quote (roberts @ Jan. 22 2007,12:33)

I suspect that you have DSL v3.2.
The new module b44.o is likely causing this problem.
Hopefully you have DSL v3.1 or prior.
Solution: copy /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/net/b44.o
and then perform a depmod -a
then modprobe 8139too
then a netcardconfig should get you going.

I was having the same problem as some of the posters here; my ethernet card was spotted and worked fine from the 3.2 Live CD (and from a 3.1 install), but when I installed 3.2 and booted up, the card wasn't even recognized.

I used the 3.1 Live CD to follow the quoted instructions posted by roberts, and now I am able to access the network with no problems in 3.2.

I have an older Gateway computer with a Celeron 331Mhz processor (sorry, I don't know the ethernet card vendor)

I have the same issue with 3.2, 3.1, and even 2.4. I can use the Internet from the live-CD but after installing to a HDD, the network card is no longer recognized. I haven't tried any of the solutions suggested in this thread but I'll try them soon.

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