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shinasha

Member

Registered: 2012-06-17

Posts: 5

ethernet interface not detected

Thanks for the great distro! I'm really enjoying slitaz.

I do not see eth0 as an interface. Running ifconfig I see only lo, and previously dummy0 but that has disappeared.

# dmesg | grep -i eth0

returns nothing

# uname -a

Linux slitaz 2.6.37-slitaz #2 SMP Wed Mar 7 10:36:39 CET 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

# lspci -nn | grep -i eth

14:00.5 Ethernet controller [200]:  JMicron Technology Corp. JMC260 PCI Express Fast Ethernet Controller [197b:0260] (rev 02)

Thank you for your help.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: ethernet interface not detected

Your ethernet requires CONFIG_JME : http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/JME.html

Slitaz-4.0 :

tux@slitaz:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i CONFIG_JME

# CONFIG_JME is not set

You can either recompile the kernel to enable jme as a module or builtin support, or compile the manufacturers driver. In either case you'll need to install slitaz-toolchain and linux-source.

Tutorial on kernel compile:  http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:kernel

shinasha

Member

Registered: 2012-06-17

Posts: 5

Re: ethernet interface not detected

Wow, thank you for the quick and helpful response. Will give it a shot tonight and post update.

shinasha

Member

Registered: 2012-06-17

Posts: 5

Re: ethernet interface not detected

I finally managed to recompile the kernel with the JME driver built in:

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i CONFIG_JME

results in CONFIG_JME=y

My plan was to do it in a virtual machine so I had internet access, then create an iso based on that. Every time I try to do that using Tazlito, the new iso does not have JME enabled after install. My numerous attempts with Tazlito, I believe, have just recreated an iso with the default kernel. This isn't very descriptive but I have tried so many different things I don't know where to start. This is way beyond my linux experience but I'm having fun reading the documentation and trying new things. Just need a bump in the right direction. Thanks again.

shinasha

Member

Registered: 2012-06-17

Posts: 5

Re: ethernet interface not detected

Got it. Thanks for the help mojo. You da man. Now for wireless...