On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 21:40 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 26 April 2008 20:38:53 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 19:19 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 April 2008 19:03, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Saturday 26 April 2008 17:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > I've no idea if this will work, but:
> > > >
> > > > Copy the /boot stuff (vmlinux, initrd, System.map and config) from
> > > > the Live CD into your installed /boot. Also /lib/modules, same
thing.
> > > > Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to *add* (not replace) the Live CD version
> > > > of the kernel as a boot-time option.
> > > >
> > > > Cross fingers and reboot, selecting the appropriate version.
> > >
> > > Patrick, I'm close to calling quits. I've fought this constantly
for
> > > 10 days now, and given it huge slices of my time. No-one has added
> > > any comment to my bug report, so it's quite possible that there is no
> > > other example of this PCMCIA adapter still being used in linux. I have
> > > to wonder whether it's worth knocking myself out any more.
>
> I hear you. I have no problem generating random suggestions, but it's
> not costing me much :-) Here's another one: try a different model PCMCIA
> card. Your call.
>
I've already tried quite a few. If I've time tomorrow I'll try a few more.
I
do have a case to pack, though :-)
> > Somewhere along the line I must have managed it as 'lsmod | grep
pcnet'
> > returns
> >
> > pcnet_cs 38704 0
> > 8390 11776 1 pcnet_cs
> >
> > However, 'Network is unreachable'. What now?
>
> Are you running Network Manager? Click on the icon and again on the line
> that identifies your connection. It should restart the interface.
>
When the LiveCD was running, that's how I did it. On the Install it just says
no interfaces.
You may have to explicitly associate the interface with NM. I remember
having to do that in F8 (though not in F9-Pre). IIRC you do it via
system-network-manager, presumably without touching anything else.
> If not running NM, do 'ifdown <interface>; ifup
<interface'. That's
> assuming you haven't changed anything else of course.
>
I tried a reboot, but I didn't actually try that. I will in the morning,
providing I can make time.
Luck.
poc