Re: ethernet not loading
Sorry, I had been making allot of changes on my PC lately and could not figure out what I all broke. Ended up doing a re-install but I am using the default kernel again (4.20.5-gnu) in GuixSD. At the moment, I am not too bothered by the lack of ethernet. I might save this problem for another time. Thanks. On 2019-01-31 4:25 pm, Marius Bakke wrote: nightowl writes: I just got back to looking at this. I was able to add the linux-libre-4.4 to my system, the ethernet is visible now, but the connection is erratic. I am using gnome, but it doesn't automatically detect the ethernet. Sometimes I can execute the 'ifconfig eth0' up command in the terminal and connect. Other times it gives me an out of memory message. That sounds really strange. Does running 'dmesg' give any clues as to what is going on?
Re: ethernet not loading
nightowl writes: > I just got back to looking at this. I was able to add the > linux-libre-4.4 to my system, the ethernet is visible now, but the > connection is erratic. I am using gnome, but it doesn't automatically > detect the ethernet. Sometimes I can execute the 'ifconfig eth0' up > command in the terminal and connect. Other times it gives me an out of > memory message. That sounds really strange. Does running 'dmesg' give any clues as to what is going on? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: ethernet not loading
I just got back to looking at this. I was able to add the linux-libre-4.4 to my system, the ethernet is visible now, but the connection is erratic. I am using gnome, but it doesn't automatically detect the ethernet. Sometimes I can execute the 'ifconfig eth0' up command in the terminal and connect. Other times it gives me an out of memory message. On 2019-01-10 10:56 pm, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi nightowl, please always keep the mailing list copied in your replies. I have since reinstalled guixsd 0.16.0 on my machine Since Guix is stateless, reinstallation is rarely ever useful. Did the behaviour change in the new installation? but when I run Trisquel 8 from a thumb drive, it reports: 4.4.0-119-generic kernel. Guix provides a similar version of Linux libre. You can select it by adding “(kernel linux-libre-4.4)” to your operating system configuration file. You may also need to add “linux” to the “use-package-modules” clause near the top. -- Ricardo
Re: ethernet not loading
Hi nightowl, please always keep the mailing list copied in your replies. > I have since reinstalled guixsd 0.16.0 on my machine Since Guix is stateless, reinstallation is rarely ever useful. Did the behaviour change in the new installation? > but when I run Trisquel 8 from a thumb drive, it reports: > > 4.4.0-119-generic kernel. Guix provides a similar version of Linux libre. You can select it by adding “(kernel linux-libre-4.4)” to your operating system configuration file. You may also need to add “linux” to the “use-package-modules” clause near the top. -- Ricardo
Re: ethernet not loading
Hi nightowl, > I have not been able to get my ethernet to connect. > > I have a Broadcom BCM4401-B0 chip set using B44 driver. > > I use dmesg command and see following message: > > b44 ssb0:0: Required 30 BIT MASK unsupported by system. > > Is there a way around this? As an independent test, I have tried the > Trisquel 8 distro and it is able to use the ethernet, so the hardware > seems to be ok. Could you please tell us what kernel version you used on Trisquel? -- Ricardo
Re: ethernet not loading
nightowl writes: > I have not been able to get my ethernet to connect. > > I have a Broadcom BCM4401-B0 chip set using B44 driver. > > I use dmesg command and see following message: > > b44 ssb0:0: Required 30 BIT MASK unsupported by system. > > Is there a way around this? As an independent test, I have tried the > Trisquel 8 distro and it is able to use the ethernet, so the hardware > seems to be ok. We probably need some more information from you. What version of guix are you running? What laptop/desktop do you have? What year was it made? Can you post the output of Trisquel 8's "lsmod" and the output of guix's "lsmod"? Thanks, Joshua > > > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus
