Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?
On 29 Nov 2003 at 0:05, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Did you try to use the XFree configuration file from Knoppix? Btw, the
> Bus ID looks strange. Did you set it manually? What does lspci say
> about your card?
>
> You can also configure your X-server with debconf:
>
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
>
> > And then there's the NIC. During bootup, I see a message scroll
> > by that indicated that the NIC was detected (It's a 3c905b Fast
> > EtherLink PCI/XL). But after I log in, ifconfig does not show any
> > signs that the card exists at all. When I installed Debian, I
> > didn't see any option for any type of 3c90x NIC, though there were
> > plenty of other 3COM NICs listed. Again, this worked fine with
> > RedHat, SuSE, and Knoppix. So why won't it work with Debian?
>
> Perhaps you couldn't select the driver in modconf because it is built
> into your kernel. What does /etc/network/interfaces say about your
> card? Maybe you want to install the etherconf package. If you want to
> rerun it's configuration dialog later, use
>
> dpkg-reconfigure etherconf
>
Here's s hot of what the /etc/network/interfaces file contains, as well as the results of lspci
http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Misc/Screen-0.JPG
The second video adapter on the list is the one I am trying to use. The first on on the list is
the on-board video, which is apparently impossible to fully disable (I asked on the Packard
Bell newsgroup, since this is a PB Multimedia C115, but all I got there was silence.)
Anyway, I ran dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86 and plugged in all the appropriate values,
including the PCI Bus ID as per what lspci showed for the S3Virge. Still no luck.
http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Misc/Screen-1.JPG
Judging by the error message, it looks like the system pretty much ignored the info I plugged
in (specifically the Bus ID for the video card.) And why did it try to use the onboard video as
well, when I didn't set anything for that anyway?
And lastly, dpkg-reconfigure etherconf returned the error...
etherconf is not fully installed.
But, it looks like I will need to start from scratch anyway. Before I powered back down, I also
tried the trick to convert from ext2 to ext3. Now my /boot partition is completely empty, and
trying startx just gives a Command Not Found error. And I also noticed that there were several
errors during bootup saying something to the effect of module ext3 not found.
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