Re: Issues with ethernet in testing/lenny
percy tiglao(prtiglao@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> Hello, I've recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 530 and wanted to get
> Debian onto it. I've installed Lenny mostly without any issues, but it
> did not autodetect my ethernet card. It is a 82562V-2 integrated card,
> at least according to the Windows Vista devise manager.
>
> Anyway, I do have a very basic system up and running. No internet
> support or anything, so I can really only do stuff from the Windows
> side of my system right now. I'm not sure how I can get logs of what I
> do to my email from Debian so I'm sorry about the lack of the logs.
> I'll do my best to describe the error messages however.
>
> As I stated earlier, the installer did not detect the network card. I
> tried loading the "e1000" module inside the installation program which
> according to intel should be the module I need:
> http://downloadmirror.intel.com/9180/ENG/README.txt
>
> The installer wouldn't acccept it, it would just loop back to the
> "select module" screen. I tried to "modprobe e1000" manually during
> the installation, but that didn't work either. No error messages come
> up.
>
> After that, the rest of the system installed without any hassle, but
> obviously I cannot connect to the internet right now without any
> network card, so I don't have anything installed aside from whatever
> is on the base netinstall on Lenny.
>
> I've tried to "modprobe e1000" after the installation, and there seems
> to be no errors that happen. I use dmesg and aside from the loading
> message from e1000, no other messages pop up. I've also added "iface
> eth0 inet dhcp" into my /etc/network/interfaces file, and tried to do
> "ifup eth0", but that fails with the message: 'Device "eth0" does not
> exist'
>
> Thank you for reading this message. I'd really like to get Debian up
> and running as soon as possible so please help. As an aside, all error
> messages and other logs are from memory + google. So they may not be
> 100% correct but they're the best I got right now.
Take a look at the /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file.
I had a problem with a laptop, because of a lot of testing I was
doing, that thought the ethernet card was eth6. So ifup eth0 didn't
work but ifup eth6 did. I repaired that file and now so that eth0
was the only ethernet interface and all is well.
HTH=Hope This Helps, YMMV=Your Mileage May Vary, HAND=Have A Nice Day
Wayne
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