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tubia

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Registered: 2015-01-04

Posts: 2

[Compaq mini] network problem

Hi all,
this is my first post in this forum. I've been a linux user (debian-side) for many years and now I'm approaching to Arch.
I'm trying to install it via USB in an old Compaq Mini.
I was able to boot the kernel ('nomodeset' required) and I created the partitions.
Actually the main problem is the network connection.

## WiFi

For what concerns Wi-Fi, the Controller is a Broadcom BCM4312, uses the kernel driver b43-pci-bridge and the module ssb.
It's not recognized by ifconfig -a

## Ethernet

The Ethernet instead is a Marvell 88E8040, uses module sky2.
I can enable it but it's not working:

sky2 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: speed/duplex mismatch

So actually I cannot install archlinux.

Hints?

Thank you in advance!

Last edited by tubia (2015-01-06 12:01:18)

tubia

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Registered: 2015-01-04

Posts: 2

Re: [Compaq mini] network problem

I'm sorry for my lack of information but is difficult to report correctly a lspci -vnn from a networkless device..
I'll try to explain better my further experiments.

## Ethernet
There is an old bug with Marvell 88E8040 and sky2 since kernel 2.6.xx that should have been solved.
I searched the forum but was not able to find a solution.

## WiFi
I searched for different solutions in the forum and it seems that I should install driver manually, although I have the b43 module. Following this answer in stackexchange I downloaded from another PC b43-firmware.tar.gz and broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 but I'm not able to run makepkg --install as root (the user I have during installation process).

Possible solution in progress:
I find this thread on the forum that suggest tethering via USB with a smartphone. Following instructions now I'm connected so I'll try to install archlinux and then fix the connection problem (WiFi seems the most promising).

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [Compaq mini] network problem

but I'm not able to run makepkg --install as root (the user I have during installation process).

The user arch is also available in the live environment

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky