Booted from the Edubuntu disc ("Try Edubuntu...") and the only network
interfaces in ifconfig are lo, lxcbr0 and wlan0, so it looks like the NIC
is not being recognized.
Due to the magic of self-reporting, LSHW shows the NIC as:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc. yaddayadda
'lsmod | grep ath' showed no driver for the Atheros NIC, so I ran 'sudo
modprobe ath9k' (the driver for that card), after which lsmod showed a
plethora of ath9k entries.
Unfortunately, LSHW still shows it as unclaimed, so I guess that's it for
that card. (Previously, on the LTSP box, I had installed the driver via
backports-modules and successfully included it on that machine (sudo su \
echo ath9k >> /etc/modules), but after running update-initramfs and the
other update commands I still received no joy, so maybe there's something
about that particular card ... dunno. False trail.)
So I pushed a user out of their chair and grabbed their old eMachines
system, booted the Edubuntu from the disc and checked it out. Bingo. That
old card is in the ifconfig display. Amusingly, LSHW doesn't list it ...
but it surfs, anyway!
So I hooked the eMachines box up to the Edubuntu LTSP box ... booted, and
... that stinking NIC won't boot at all. No PXE, or something. I'll be
working on it in the morning, along with any other cards I can scavenge.
Arrrr.
Thanks, vagrant. I know you said it, before, but it just seemed incredible
to me, despite those many years back where writing drivers was relatively
commonplace for Linux users. I guess that's it for this round of issues. On
to the next ...
Thanks, too, to everyone else.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org>wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:29:13PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:47:23PM -0700, James Butler wrote:
> > > No interfaces found! Aborting...
> > ...
> > > ipconfig: no devices to configure
> > > /scripts/local-top/nbd: .: line 34: can't open '/tmp/net-*.conf'
>
> The Linux kernel is not finding your network card, so it probably does not
> have
> the correct kernel module or firmware in the initramfs, if that version of
> the
> kernel works with your network card at all.
>
> I would recommend booting a live CD (or USB image) of the same OS and
> version
> you're trying to get LTSP to work on, and seeing what network drivers
> and/or
> firmware it uses, presuming it works at all.
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant
>
>
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