[SATLUG] this is driving me nuts

[Robert Pearson]

On 10/31/06, mike sullivan <albinoaardvark at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Robert Pearson wrote:
> > On 10/31/06, mike sullivan <albinoaardvark at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>  Are you connecting with Knoppix or with the hard disk loaded Linux
> > after Knoppix configures the NIC?
> If I understand your question correctly. I boot with the Knoppix CD in
> my CD drive. Just as a live CD usage. As soon as it finishes loading I
> can easily launch Firefox, thunderbird or what ever and surf away with
> out doing any thing further to the computer. At this point the terminal
> shows the correct results of lspci & lsmod.
>
> Mike WN5PMR

See if Knoppix has the /usr/sbin/hwinfo command. A Google search says
it is included in Knoppix.
Because it is in /usr/sbin it should be run as root or with sudo to
work correctly.

When I run /usr/sbin/hwinfo --netcard as root on my SUSE 10.1 system I get this:

hwinfo --netcard
21: PCI 04.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.300]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_66
  Unique ID: rBUF.rDRqBOJ4Sq1
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:04.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "ASUSTeK A7N8X Mainboard onboard nForce2 Ethernet"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0066 "nForce2 Ethernet Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x80a7 "A7N8X Mainboard onboard nForce2 Ethernet"
  Revision: 0xa1
  Driver: "forcedeth"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xe2086000-0xe2086fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xe400-0xe407 (rw)
  IRQ: 185 (17934 events)
  HW Address: 00:0c:6e:81:fa:70
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000066sv00001043sd000080A7bc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: forcedeth is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe forcedeth"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

30: PCI 201.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.300]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10b7_9201
  Unique ID: JNkJ.kj92gXXcFqB
  Parent ID: lgGW.AaMvZTx_+_A
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0c.0/0000:02:01.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:02:01.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "ASUSTeK A7N8X Deluxe onboard 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast
Ethernet Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x10b7 "3Com Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x9201 "3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller [Tornado]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x80ab "A7N8X Deluxe onboard 3C920B-EMB Integrated
Fast Ethernet Controller"
  Revision: 0x40
  Driver: "3c59x"
  Device File: eth1
  I/O Ports: 0xc000-0xcfff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xdd000000-0xdd00007f (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0x50100000-0x5011ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 185 (17934 events)
  HW Address: 00:26:54:10:f1:cc
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010B7d00009201sv00001043sd000080ABbc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: 3c59x is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe 3c59x"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #26 (PCI bridge)

I have two NICs on the motherboard.
Only the 3Com is activated by me on purpose.

You will have to find the driver for your NIC, download it, save it
somewhere and install it when you boot Kubuntu from your hard drive.
You can do all this with Knoppix. You can mount your Kubuntu hard disk
with Knoppix and save the driver on it somewhere you can easily get
to.

I had this problem with Ubuntu. Once you are on the network be sure
and do the update with apt or yum or whatever Kubuntu is using. That
update will fix a lot of problems. I wish I were clever because there
is probably a way to do apt or yum in Knoppix and have it update the
Kubuntu. I'm not that clever.