Hi I bought a new Motherboard and a DvD-Burner and attached my old hard disks to it with slitaz-2010-firefox installed. Now my Ethernet-Connection doesn't work. I know that I need to change the drivers to make it work but I don't know how. I didn't test it yet, but maybe you could tell me if I have to install the new DvD-Drive, too. Thank you for any advice. -Nik
ps: I think slitaz does already have the drivers I need, because the Live-Cd works just fine.
You'll need to find out what chipset the ethernet is and find the appropriate Linux kernle driver. Hopefully it's in the SliTaz-compiled kernel, else you'll need to compile it and/or request it's inclusion in the next update.
WRT the DVD burner, it should 'just work' if it is recognised as a CDROM drive. BurnBox should do something useful but I can't vouch for it as I've never used it. Other burning software may be available.
okay thank you so far seawolf I typed in lspci and this what it said for ethernet controller: 'nvidia corporation MCP77 Ethernet'. Now how do I figure out what driver is the right one? and how do I activate a driver that is listed when I type: modprobe -l | grep drivers/net (is it the "modprobe -v 'modulname'" command?)
I think the easiest way to figure out which driver is the right one for me, is to figure out which driver is used by slitaz-live, because that one works. How do I do that?
If it works on the Live CD, open a terminal and type: lsmod to tell you which modules are in use. Hopefully you'll be able to recognise one, or it's logically named!
okay, solved the problem... I compared the output of lsmod of the slitaz-live version with the output of the installed version and guess what... they were the same so I started playing around with the networkconfiguration and changed eth0 to eth1 and everything works fine now! thank you anyways seawolf! greetz -Nik