On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:17:11 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:58 +0000, Beartooth wrote: [...] >> > >> > So verify that the "e100" driver is loaded via "/sbin/lsmod". >> >> All right, making assurance doubly sure, I logged in using "su - root" >> *and* did cd before /sbin/lsmod. >> >> I see columns labelled Module, Size, and Used by. "e100" is not mentioned >> in any of them -- and without a Net connection, I have no way to download >> anything. Can I get it off the CDs, as I must have been doing before? > > It should have been installed by default. Verify that you have the > following file on the system: > > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/e100.ko > > (yes, those are graves or "backticks"--the other character on the "~" > key). I think I must have retyped that correctly, because bash turned the uname part into "2.6.19-1.2895.fc6" and left the rest. But I also think I do not have it, because bash then added ":No such file or directory" > If you do have the file, then (as root via the "su -") try this > command: > > modprobe e100 > > to force the driver to load. I tried that anyway, and sure enough (I think) it responded with a line saying "-bash: modeprobe: command not found" I did the install, as usual, in custom mode -- and tried to leave out games, chat, and anything else I thought surely I'd never use (but took lots of development stuff, because I do run betas like Pan and Dillo). This has been my usual practice for years -- only, this time, I must have mis-guessed something inessential that I should have taken. Or this may be the same machine on which recently I got so snarled up in yum dependency hell that I finally commanded "yum remove elfutils" -- and didn't read the list of other things it would remove carefully enough. (I don't think it is. I think I just gave up, wiped that install with DBAN, and installed again.) Anybody know a straightforward way to get it from the CDs? Or failing that, if I have to do the whole install over, what in particular (besides elfutils) should I make a particular point of getting? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora Core 6; CXO 5.0.1; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.119; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.16, Opera 9.02, Firefox 1.5 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
