Re: New laptop - problems with linux

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

Stephen Clark wrote:
> Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Clark wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I just purchased a VBI-Asus S96F laptop Intel 945GM &  ICH7, with a Core
>>> 2 Duo T560,0 2gb pc5400 memory.
>>> From checking around it appeared all the
>>> hardware was well supported by linux - but I am having major problems.
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. neither the wireless lan Intel pro 3945ABG or built in ethernet
>>> RTL-8169C are detected and configured
>>>   
>>
>> If you searched the web, you would get ipw3945 sourceforge homepage in
>> return --
>> it's not in the vanilla kernel for the time being.
>>
>> Is r8169 module loaded?
>>
>>  
>>
> No it is not loaded - i did a modprobe on it and it loaded but still no
> ethx device.

Heh, 2.6.18.1 is too old kernel :D -- it doesn't support this card yet.

regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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