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Slackware and the vanishing Ethernet card

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Disciple of The Watch, Mar 3, 2007.

  1. Disciple of The Watch

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    That's right, it's time for one more episode!

    This time, it features Slackware 10.2 and a PPPoE connection.

    So! Installing went perfect, and I somehow found a way to get my PPPoE connection up and running after some serious scratching - as Taza said, PPPoE and Slack is "in the land of deep wizardry" - okay, so I'm done browsing around the web, kill my connection, and shut down the machine.

    So, this afternoon, after waking up, I fired up the comp, and LO AND BEHOLD, the light indicating a Ethernet connection on my modem is OFF. So, I start X, fire up a terminal, and check what the hell is wrong via ifconfig - guess what, my Ethernet card is gone!

    I power down the comp... this time I turn on the modem BEFORE the computer, and BAM, the light turns on. Once again, I start X... and the light turns off again. I fire up a terminal and try to resurrect it with ifconfig eth0 up and dhcpcd eth0, and that just won't work.

    Everything worked fine the last evening... so if I understood correctly, under NO circumstances should I power off my modem, under penalty of seeing my Ethernet card vanish? Geez, didn't remembered you were THAT obsessive-compulsive, Slack.
     
    Disciple of The Watch, Mar 3, 2007
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    pun intended?

    Only thing I could think of is making sure your ethernet modules are loaded.
     
    hedron, Mar 5, 2007
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    Err, no. Not at all...

    Actually, I think I might have found the root of the problem... it seems that booting the comp with the modem OFF causes Slack to skip the loading of the ethernet modules - for good, it would seem. I've watched it boot while it still worked fine, and there is some interaction between the modem and the ethernet card during loading.

    Regardless, I swiped the HD clean and did a clean (X)ubuntu install until I can find another distro that won't be too heavy on my geriatric P3.
     
    Disciple of The Watch, Mar 6, 2007
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    Use Windows.
     
    Bahir the Red, Mar 8, 2007
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    No. I'm through with Bill and his crappy so-called OS.

    I knew scratching my head would be a perfectly normal part of being a Linux user, and that's fine with me, I like learning new stuff.

    So sorry, Bill, I've broken free from the ranks of your drones.
     
    Disciple of The Watch, Mar 8, 2007
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    What kernel were you using in slackware? If you were using the default kernel... you really should have compiled v2.6 yourself.
     
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    Right-o, so I has some time to kill and I decided to wire an old HD to my machine ans install Slack from there, and this time I powered on the *modem* before the *computer* and everything went just fine, in fact I'm typing this from Slack.

    Turns out that if the comp is powered on BEFORE the DSL modem, the Ethernet modules just aren't loaded... and they're a pain to restore.

    Oh, and they kernel was 2.14.something.
     
    Disciple of The Watch, Mar 25, 2007
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    I doubt that ;) The Linux kernel is currently at 2.6.*, do you mean 2.4?
     
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    :doh: Yeah, 2.4.31. Stupid typo.

    *EDIT* Had the wrong kernal version... again. Fixed.

    [ March 26, 2007, 23:08: Message edited by: Disciple of The Watch ]
     
    Disciple of The Watch, Mar 26, 2007
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