VIA ethernet fast adapter

[SomeOne]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Debian, and I have to say I had a really bad time with the installation, but the good thing is I got passed that now Right now the problem that I want to solve first (cause i got many) is with the network card.

My computer is an HP Pavilion a510m (desktop). And the info that I've got from Windows XP about the card is:

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Name                 [00000001] VIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapter 
Adapter Type         Ethernet 802.3 
Product Type         VIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapter 
Installed            Yes 
PNP Device ID        PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3065&SUBSYS_80FF1043&REV_78\3&61AAA01&0&90 
Last Reset           23/11/2004 11:03 p.m. 
Index                1 
Service Name         FETNDIS 
IP Address           10.10.145.11 
IP Subnet            55.255.0.0 
Default IP Gateway   10.10.1.1 
DHCP Enabled         Yes 
DHCP Server          172.16.1.4 
DHCP Lease Expires   30/11/2004 11:03 p.m. 
DHCP Lease Obtained  23/11/2004 11:03 p.m. 
MAC Address          00:0E:A6:89:8A:28 
I/O Port             0x0000E000-0x0000E0FF 
Memory Address       0xEA003000-0xEA0030FF 
IRQ Channel          IRQ 23 

I need to have my network card up and running because that is what I use to connect to a Motorola Cable Modem, and that's my only connection to te interet.

Any feedback is welcomed, if I have to re-install linux in order to make it work that's fine with me...

By the way, I'm running Debian Woody, and I only have CD1 and CD5.

Thanks in advanced,
SomeOne

[lacek]

You need the via-rhine module, probably. Probably the default kernel has a module like this (try 'modprobe via-rhine'), but if it isn't, you'll need to recompile a kernel with the via driver compiled in (or compiled as a module). For this, you should download a recent kernel (2.6.9), because, to my knowledge, the via netcard module was buggy in some older kernels (something was wrong with the upload speed, I think).

[SomeOne]

Thanks for replying Lacek.

I'm going to try and do that.

Btw, Knoppix does configure my system fine, and since it's based on debian, is there a way to know what modules it used to used them in the debian installation?

This is the system info that knoppix gives me:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3205
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b198
00:09.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 02)
00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3149 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 7205 (rev 01)

Regards,
SomeOne

[lacek]

lsmod
will print out the currently loaded modules. I don't know if there is a way to tell if a specific module is compiled in the kernel, tough.

[SomeOne]

Thank you very much Lacek!

I did as you told me, a lsmod to see if the module was installed and then a modconfig and installed the via-rhine module, and it worked just fine!

Right now I'm typing this on my Debian partition

Thanks!