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Thanks Jason. I left out some info that he gave me after my post and
that is that he did have the HP set up before when he had DSL through
qwest so I assume that Ubuntu had the driver for the card then?<br>
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<pre wrap="">Find out what hardware he is using. type lspci and look for "Ethernet
Controller: ..." This will tell you the type of chipset (intel, 3com,
etc). You will need a kernel that has support for that hardware, in
the form of a module. Type lsmod to display your running modules. Keep
in mind some dysfunctional hardware requires firmware to be loaded. In
this case, I recommend disabling (in the bios) or removing that
network card and installing one that does not require non free
firmware. Its not worth dealing with non-native hardware:-(
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:06 PM, BrianO'Keefe <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com"><okeefe@cybermesa.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">My brother is trying to get his old HP box set up as his newer MicroTel
crapped out. We'll be woroking on that at some point but for now he'd
like to get the HP functional. He's running Hardy on it and all seems
fine except for networking.
His ISP is Comcast and he recently bought a wireless router so his wife
could use her laptop at home. He set up the router with the MicroTel and
all was fine until the MicroTel crapped out.
I thought that he'd just be able to plug the HP into the router and have
ethernet since the router was al configured but apparently that is not
the case. He says that there is no network choice to pick from either
NetworkManager or the Network tools. this makes no sense to me.
The HP does not have wireless support.
Any ideas of where to start with this?
thanks,
Brian
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