Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-14 Thread Mark Grieveson
I submitted a bug report on this to the Debian developer for the kernel image, who responded telling me that the hardware was likely loose and simply needed to be reseated. So, I took the laptop apart, and put it back together again, making sure everything fitted nice and snug. And, good news,

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:06:25 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:20:00 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Try by powering off the computer and leave it so for a while. Then engage it and wait for a miracle... if no miracle comes to you I would go

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-12 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:26:03 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: I think I've figured out a possible solution to my issues. I noticed a bunch of errors when running dmesg, and I centred on these errors with the command dmesg | grep BAR. From this, I searched the internet, and found a site where a

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Grieveson
I think I've figured out a possible solution to my issues. I noticed a bunch of errors when running dmesg, and I centred on these errors with the command dmesg | grep BAR. From this, I searched the internet, and found a site where a whack of people were complaining of similar issues. The site

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:00:25 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I have a Dell Latitude D600. I successfully installed Debian and the firmware for the two network devices on the laptop, those being a Broadcom NetXtreme ethernet card (using firmware tg3) and an Intel PRO/Wireless Network

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:05:23 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Have you tried to reload both modules? I.e.: modprobe -r tg3 modprobe tg3 modprobe -r ipw2100 modprobe ipw2100 (do not do this if you are connected remotely via ssh and be careful, this can lead

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:55:14 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Have you tried to reload both modules? I.e.: modprobe -r tg3 modprobe tg3 modprobe -r ipw2100 modprobe ipw2100 (do not do this if you are connected remotely via ssh and be careful, this can lead to a computer hang, so be

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:20:00 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Try by powering off the computer and leave it so for a while. Then engage it and wait for a miracle... if no miracle comes to you I would go for a bug report :-) Greetings, Yes, the

network devices have vanished on Dell D600

2011-08-09 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I have a Dell Latitude D600. I successfully installed Debian and the firmware for the two network devices on the laptop, those being a Broadcom NetXtreme ethernet card (using firmware tg3) and an Intel PRO/Wireless Network Connection (using firmware ipw2100). This was working fine. However,