Re: Where is a Debian network setup site?

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 03:03:24 +0100, Hagar <hagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was given a new Shuttle XPC AMD64 as a present.  I would have preferred
a box that was built using a tested Linux hardware list, but I wasn't
about to complain about receiving what is really a neat box and a real
screamer.

By the way, I am fairly new to Linux.

Debian 3.1 loads just fine, everything works - sound, video, DVD.  Except
for the network card.  I get connect lights on the switch when connected,
I can ping my local address (192.168.0.3), ifup and ifdown works.  But I
get no activity on the network and XP (at 192.168.0.2) can't ping it or be
pinged by it.  As a test, I loaded a base XP on it and the network
hardware worked just fine.  Then I discovered that Knoppix, which appears
to be made out of Debian, will work also.  So - wrong/bad/invalid network
driver, I assume? The only logs I can find are in Dmesg and they only say
that the card was bound and eth0 was started.  Appears that Debian thinks
that everything is working fine.


What is the kernel version, under Debian and under Knoppix?

  uname -r

What is the difference between the output of lsmod, under Debian and
under Knoppix?

Under Debian:

  lsmod > /tmp/lsmod.debian

Under Knoppix:

  lsmod | diff /tmp/lsmod.debian -

This is just my two cents, I don use debian, and know little about it.  I
just thought there ought to be a way to discover the difference.

Less likely to be interesting: lspci. Try -v or other options.

Hard to make sense of:

You could also explore the sysfs directories under the two systems.  On my
system, it is mounted as /sys, but that may be different for Debian. Check
with "mount | grep sysfs", then cd and "find". Use lspci to determine
directories of likely interest.

-Enrique
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