Hp a220n not accepting linux

[SoulNothing 0]

NEw issue cant configure network i manually installed the most recent kernel and it said its a missing a init file

 

so problems are kernel and network

[Mel 0]

I thought one if your posts said you got cable ISP. If you're getting on the internet

with Fedora then your network is working unless your cable box is connected to

a usb port.

As for speed ,I haven't noticed any change.

[SoulNothing 0]

actually my cable modem is like this

 

motorolla surboard to belkin router to hub to pcs

 

i looked at the belkin, motorolla and hub site all support linux

 

when i reinstall fedora again ill post the error i got win updates and it decided to format my partition.

 

the card it says is nvnet

[Mel 0]

Sorry bout that. I wasn't thinking. Your previous posts did indicate you were networked.

I should network mine so I can take a look before I start spouting useless remarks.

(I'm going to the tool shed to find something to pry my foot out of my mouth.)

[SoulNothing 0]

Mel i dont mean to be a pain im known to make incoherent remarks at times but im just trying to get linux to read my card

 

i tried the source code

drivers

tar files and nothing

[Mel 0]

Did you try "Network" in System Settings ?

How about "Network Device Control" and "Internet Configuration

Wizard" in System Tools.

Do you have GUI with Fedora ?

"Network" in System Settings had no problem finding my netcard.

Have you tried posting on any of the other Linux forums ?

There are a few that are dedicated to Fedora.Red Hat home page

has a list of links to Red Hat and Fedora forums.Some of those

distro specific forums have a couple dedicated users that can almost tell how many times you blinked when you installed it.

I didn't intend to sound sarcastic on that last post.It's just that my present network consists of plugging whichever computer I decide to go on the web with into my cable box.

[SoulNothing 0]

i apologize as well

i tried everything network related and each time it comes with another network area

 

im the type that plugs into the router shares files and manages a network

 

and thats why im so interested in linux is its network capabilities

[SoulNothing 0]

odd posts didnt go up tried this twice before ill try again

 

i went through all the network things ive been using redhat 9.0s drivers because i couldnt get the tar file to work ill try the nvidia board

[Mel 0]

Did you use RH9 up2date. You get 1 week full service and after that you

have the demo support which is everything except live support and

installation help.

Run up2date to get all the updates.It doesn't cost anything unless you sign

up for a premium service.You can still update with the demo version.You

just don't get personal help from RH.

[SoulNothing 0]

dont you have to be online for that and i tried that from windows and cant figure out how to get it to work

and redhat said i needed to be connected

 

and i dont have dialup

[Maillion 0]

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dont you have to be online for that and i tried that from windows and cant figure out how to get it to work
and redhat said i needed to be connected

and i dont have dialup

Have you tried dhcp? Knoppix used that to set up my cable modem. I don't know how to initiate it after installing Linux. Do you have a cable modem? Or dsl? If cable modem do you have a static ip address? 8)

[SoulNothing 0]

under xp it automaticlly detects

under linux nothing

i have comcast cable

and im unfamiliar with dhcp and no knoppix based distros will work on this system just evil e and redhat

 

i cant grab the right ip for linux itll work under xp but not redhat

[Maillion 0]

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under xp it automaticlly detects
under linux nothing
i have comcast cable
and im unfamiliar with dhcp and no knoppix based distros will work on this system just evil e and redhat

i cant grab the right ip for linux itll work under xp but not redhat

OK, I use comcast as well. I'm afraid I'm not sure how to get dhcp to start under Red Hat. It started during my Debian install. Anyone else out there who can tell him how to start it, or manually set up his ip and other 'net stuff? 8)

[SoulNothing 0]

thanks Maillion

i forgot to mention this it detects ip during boot up

 

like there is this long long network module that spews out subnet gateway ip everything port address

 

but when i enter the command to look through it again its gone

 

so i think it knows my network card is there but im doing something wrong

[Maillion 0]

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thanks Maillion
i forgot to mention this it detects ip during boot up

like there is this long long network module that spews out subnet gateway ip everything port address

but when i enter the command to look through it again its gone

so i think it knows my network card is there but im doing something wrong

Well, I wish I could help, but in network stuff, I'm lost... 8)

[SoulNothing 0]

ll say what files i grabbed then what i did then list the two errors i get

 

the redhat 9.0 rpm-just double clicked let it install reboot still nothing

the tar.gz unified driver file- unzipped to /usr/src then put the files also in all kernel folders

 

the error messages

1nvnet device eth0 does not seem to be present delaying initialization (with profile checked)

2Sbin/Ifup is not configured

Ifup<Device> has not been configured (without profile checked)

Okay i go over to the hardware and the card says its configured

I have to use dhps because i use comcast cable isp

and there seems to be no host or dns and whenever i try to configure those even after saving they will not stay.

im totally lost on this any more info needed just ask

and i apologize for the lack of information henceforth

[Mel 0]

Sorry I took so long. Couldn't remember how I did it so had to reinstall RH.

To set up internet;

1.Click on hat

2.click on 'system tools'

3.Click on 'Internet Configuration Wizard'

4.Select 'Automatically obtain IP address with dhcp'

Finish wizard and restart computer.

.

.

To set up network;

1.Click hat

2.System tools

3.Net Device Control (Network card should be listed.)

4.Click on edit

5.Click Hardware Device tab.

.....Hardware should be 'eth0(your card name)', if not,use pulldown button to select.

(mine was on 'eth1' . Had to cange to 'eth0' to get on web.)

6.Click 'General'tab

7.Select 'Activate device when computer starts' and 'Automatically obtain IP address settings with [dhcp]

8.Click 'OK'

9.Close window

10. Restart computer

.

Hope this helps.

[SoulNothing 0]

sorry mel i tried those procedures countless times and no results what soever you didnt have to reinstall red hat for me or nothing

 

odd thing under internet configuration it doesnt detect the card this is so frustrating i might have to try mandrake

[Mel 0]

Allmost forgot, I found that if you log on as root to configure network ,Iit only works as root.

To use as normal user ,I had to configure as normal user.(Still needed root PW. though.)

Haven't figured out how to make app available to all users yet.

.

BTW, I''m user type 3.

..Type 1 = Professional (Usually knows what he/she is doing)(Danleff,Maillon,Dapper Dan)

 

..Type 2 = Tired of win crashes and wants a dependable ,alternative OS

 

..Type 3 = Always likes to learn something new and doesn't have enough sense to quit when

.................he/she is ahead. (If I knew what I was doing, I probably wouldn't do it.)

[SoulNothing 0]

yeah that sounds like me type three i went to linux iso and am killing all of xps bandwith im getting the rest of the distros i can find so far i have like 30 i dont think fedora is going to work with me

 

also i tried switching to regular user and root same problems on all accounts

[danleff 0]

This is a long thread. Can I ask for a recap?

 

Fedora is the current distro?

 

You are using the stock kernel that came with Fedora, not an upgraded 2.6.x kernel?

 

The stock kernel should be 2.4.22.

 

If it is the 2.4.x series;

 

You installed the nForce CHIPSET drivers, not the nvidia video drivers?

 

The current nForce drivers do not support kernel 2.6.x yet, so they will not work in that series, if you upgrades the kernel. Rather, they should be built into the source kernel.

 

If all the answers are yes, then I will have to research this.

 

But, I understand that Fedora Core 2 will have nForce chipset support, as well as NTFS read and write capability. You may want to wait for this.

[SoulNothing 0]

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This is a long thread. Can I ask for a recap?

Fedora is the current distro?

You are using the stock kernel that came with Fedora, not an upgraded 2.6.x kernel?

The stock kernel should be 2.4.22.

If it is the 2.4.x series;

You installed the nForce CHIPSET drivers, not the nvidia video drivers?

The current nForce drivers do not support kernel 2.6.x yet, so they will not work in that series, if you upgrades the kernel. Rather, they should be built into the source kernel.

If all the answers are yes, then I will have to research this.

But, I understand that Fedora Core 2 will have nForce chipset support, as well as NTFS read and write capability. You may want to wait for this.

fedora is the current distro no kernel changes
installed redhat 9.0 rpm drivers for nforce
then the tar files
i got something on another board but am lost on it
and i dont want to make you do the research
the kernel listed is um 2.4.22.115 i got a more current fedora ill switch over
the other forum i started is here not much help that i understand http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26149
the files i have are from here
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/ all the kernel ones
and NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_9.athlon.rpm, NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm, NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm , NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz these are the drivers i tried to no avail any more info needed jst ask

should i maybe test fedora 2 test because i have it

[danleff 0]

You installed too many packages.

 

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NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_9.athlon.rpm, NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.rh90up_2.4.20_6.athlon.rpm, NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm , NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz these are the drivers i tried to no avail any more info needed jst ask

 

The RedHat packages that have "2.4.20" are for that kernel version, which you do not have.

 

The Athlon package is optimized for Athlon processors.

 

You have Fedora's packages, which means that you probably should use the source package, with the tar.gz extension.

 

From the nvidia installation instructions;

 

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Nvidia has provided precompiled binary RPMs for several versions of RedHat and Mandrake. You should select the RPM appropriate to your current kernel version. You can check what kernel your machine is running by checking the output of 'uname -r'.

 

If you are using a different version of Red Hat or Mandrake, a modified kernel, or a different rpm-based distribution, you should use the SRPM to build an RPM appropriate for your system. If you are using the SuSE RPM, see NOTE: SuSE INSTALLATIONS, below.

 

If you are using a non-RPM based system, or if you prefer not to use RPM, you should download and install from the source tarballs.

 

Did you try to look at the /etc/modules.conf file to see if the nvnet driver is being loaded there?

 

It should say on one line,

 

alias eth0 nvnet

 

As noted in the other post, did you try to do the following at a console?

 

/sbin/modprobe nvnet

 

If this does not give you an error and just returns to a prompt, this is good.

 

Then make sure that the alias eth0 nvnet is in the modules.conf file.

 

If you getno error onthe modprobe and the line is present in the modules.conf, then reboot and see if you see a line during boot like;

 

 

eth0.....................................................success.

[SoulNothing 0]

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Allmost forgot, I found that if you log on as root to configure 3.
..Type 1 = Professional (Usually knows what he/she is doing)(Danleff,Maillon,Dapper Dan)

..Type 2 = Tired of win crashes and wants a dependable ,alternative OS

..Type 3 = Always likes to learn something new and doesn't have enough sense to quit when
.................he/she is ahead. (If I knew what I was doing, I probably wouldn't do it.)

i think for windows i would create a whole new category
like type 4
type 4=profesional knows what he/she is doing, yet likes to push limits by purposely attacking system to gain knowledge

yeah im a kamikaze i download viruses purposefuly turn off my anti virus and go after the files my self and try to save computer 90% i win i also like to rub magnets across my hard drive and try to save data

[danleff 0]

I propose a matrix approach, as each of us has a little of each type in us.

 

Type 5;

 

1. Get your install just the way you like it.

 

2. Decide to experiment and try to change things.

 

3. Get Partimage, install it on another distro and backup the Debian install on a gz file.

 

4. Trash the perfectly good Debian install while fooling with it.

 

5. Restore the gz file to the partition and start over.