On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, John Mitchell wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Mark Kempster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > Can anybody point me in the right direction to find what the nic is, and > > more importantly which driver to use? It's an astonishingly humble > > white-box machine with onboard-just-about-everything. I want to say > > 8639too sounds familiar... Assuming the hardware's all ok, is it easiest > > just to try modprobe'ing everything I can find until something works? > > Mark, > You might want to try one of the small LiveCD distros to see what > hardware they detect. > > http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html > > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ > > are two of them. Their small size means they boot very quickly. > Did you try the Ubuntu 6.10 in Live CD mode? Did the nic work OK I suppose putting the CD back in the system and trying it out _after_ the install completed doesn't count? But no, the liveCD doesn't detect it either. I made the mistake of thinking that since ubuntu had played extremely well with my other hardware that it would 'just work' on this combination. Woopsie. I'll attempt one of these other liveCDs in the meantime - thanks for the links! Cheers - Mark -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
