Re: Old Laptop - Did a Net Install But Afterwards No NIC

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

If you're using gnome, there should be a small collection of system  
management icons in the upper right hand corner of the screen.  One  
of them is probably crossed out with a red circle and diagonal mark.   
Click on it.  It should be "network manager" (if it isn't try another  
one), and it will allow you to activate the NIC.

If so, file a bug report against package "network-manager".

If not, I don't know what's wrong.

Rick


On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Scarletdown wrote:

> I just attempted an install of etch on an old Toshiba Satellite  
> 425CDT.
> I used a set of install floppies because this laptop can't boot  
> from the
> CD-ROM drive.
>
> Anyway, the install ran its course (it was a Network install), but  
> after
> the install was completed, and I rebooted, the PCMCIA drivers don't
> load, which means no NIC, since this is a PCMCIA NIC this laptop uses.
>
> Why aren't the drivers loading, even though the installer was able to
> load them obviously?  udev is installed and runs automatically, so I'm
> certain that wouldn't be where the problem lies.  Also doing a  
> modprobe
> pcmcia doesn't return any errors, but also doesn't seem to do  
> anything,
> and it doesn't load automatically during the next reboot.
>
> Any ideas on what is wrong here?  The kernel is 2.6.18-3-486