From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy@insightbb.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Ethernet not working, a weird one!
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:42:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E5350B7405064D56919A7C0486F2867A@Boe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <019b01ca0d49$435e2ee0$6400a8c0@quan>
Actually, I don't have it as a module, but built into the kernel. So there
shouldn't be a module to load, right?
Jayson
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Homuth" <james@the-jdh.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 12:59 PM
Subject: RE: Ethernet not working, a weird one!
> You did throw the driver module into /etc/module.autoload.d/kernel-2.6,
> right...?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Jayson Smith
> Sent: July 25, 2009 12:47 PM
> To: Speakup
> Subject: Ethernet not working, a weird one!
>
> Hi,
>
> For several years, I have had a Linux system running Gentoo, without
> issue. This is an approx. 1.8GHZ desktop, and I'm not running any GUI,
> it's
> strictly console.
> On June 18, lightning struck our home. Among other things, it appears
> to have destroyed every device connected to our Ethernet network at the
> time
> of the hit. This included the 3Com 3C905C NIC in my Linux box. I found
> another such card and installed it. No joy. Even though the kernel driver
> is
> installed, the system refuses to recognize the card. It is listed in the
> output of lspci, though. Just in case this other card was also toast (not
> likely, since it was sitting in a drawer at the time of the lightning hit)
> I
> installed a Realtek Ethernet NIC and recompiled the kernel with its driver
> installed. No joy. However, the real kicker is that a System Rescue CD
> which
> includes Speakup can access the Internet using the 3C905 card I installed,
> and which my Linux system would not recognize. Therefore, I know the card,
> and more importantly, the motherboard are working okay. It's just
> something
> messed up on the software end. What could this be?
> If I end up having to rebuild from scratch, what is a currently good
> distro for console only, no GUI Linux that supports Speakup? If I were
> rebuilding anyway, I would strongly consider switching from Gentoo to an
> easier to maintain distro.
> Thanks for any help.
> Jayson
>
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