iBook NIC

Dan Burcaw yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Aug 30 13:15:01 2002


What does dmesg say?
Perhaps the new iBook has an updated ethernet rev that we need to know 
about.


> YellowDoggers,
> 
> I just bought the new iBook with YellowDog preinstalled from
> terrasoftsolutions. I was a little unthrilled about having the MacOS on
> there so I formatted and reinstalled only YellowDog. 
> 
> I am running into a problem. The sungem NIC doesn't seem to want to
> activate. I go through the Internet Configuration Wizard and it lists it
> as eth0 but it can't activate it in the Device menu of Network
> Configuration and under Hardware the IRQ is unknown. I get the following
> warning.
> 
> The Ethernet card could not be initialized. Please verify your settings
> and try again.
> 
> I am brand new to PPC. Am I missing a module or something? I did a
> google on this and I couldnt find much. Thanks for any help.
> 
> Jim
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