Bug#237679: installation-reports
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0500, linux.eqed wrote:
> There were no network modules loaded according to lsmod...
Ok, this is probably because of the dmfe error below.
> I tried putting in a second NIC card (Linksys 100Tx version 5.1)
Did this card work for you? If not, could you send the output of lspci
and lspci -n with the card in?
> Then on the Detecting hardware screen, an error occured while try to
> load the network modules.
> "Error while running 'modprobe -v dmfe'"
> Removing the Linksys card prevents the error from happening, but also
> doesn't load the network mods.
>
> ps. the on board network card is enabled in the bios, and according to
> the bios it is a "Broadcom Lan Device".. The book for the motherboard
> says the driver is "Davicom Onboard Lan Driver" and of course provides
> the win drivers only.
Ok... that looks like it's right. dmfe is, as far as I can see, the
Davicom driver for your onboard card. Perhaps it's a problem with the
driver itself. I'm going to clone this bug and assign it to the
kernel-image package.
- David Nusinow
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