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Problems with USB devices and ethernet on 2.6.9
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| Hello all,
I have configured and compiled the kernel 2.6.9 and it is booting the
computer; X window system is also functional (so far so good). However,
there are 2 problems so far as I could tell:
1. The net connection is off even though the Broadcom ethernet support
is compiled as a module (b44.o). I don't understand why it is not
working. lspci | grep -i ethernet returns 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet
Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100 Base-T (rev 01). But it
does not work, i.e. ping yahoo.com gives 100% signal loss.
2. USB devices are not recognized. I have a USB Logitech mouse and a USB
key, none of them are recognized. dmesg does not return any visible
error messages actually.
Any help will be greatly appreciated and thanking in advance,
--
FCC.
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Computers also eliminate spare time.
-Anonymous
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| jlambrecht 2004-12-01, 7:50 am |
| Op Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:32:31 +0100, schreef FCC:
You should really post this to linux.debian.user not to linux.debian.devel
FWIW ... see my comments in the text
> Hello all,
>
> I have configured and compiled the kernel 2.6.9 and it is booting the
> computer; X window system is also functional (so far so good). However,
> there are 2 problems so far as I could tell:
>
> 1. The net connection is off even though the Broadcom ethernet support
> is compiled as a module (b44.o). I don't understand why it is not
> working. lspci | grep -i ethernet returns 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet
> Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100 Base-T (rev 01). But it
> does not work, i.e. ping yahoo.com gives 100% signal loss.
>
lspci WILL show up your network controller because it's being recognised
by the pci bus. This is information the kernel can extract from the system
registers without doing much, for example.
# indicates you should execute the following command as root-user
#cat /proc/pci
will return you almost the same information as lspci. You should actually
do a
#lsmod | grep b44
to see if your module is loaded.
> 2. USB devices are not recognized. I have a USB Logitech mouse and a USB
> key, none of them are recognized. dmesg does not return any visible
> error messages actually.
>
Probably the same issue here. Execute lsmod to verify your modules are
loaded. Debian offers the not-so-great-but-much-appreciated modconf
utility.
#modconf
This will allow for you to indicate what modules to load.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated and thanking in advance,
I suggest your repost your message to linux.debian.user, i'll be glad to
continue this conversation there.
Regards,
Joris
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