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#1 2008-09-21 20:00:59

Shagbag
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Registered: 2006-10-25
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[SOLVED] Need 2.6.26 kernel but don't have internet access

I have installed Arch linux (2008.06 Overlord) to a 4GB USB pendrive plugged into my Acer Aspire One.  It's booting fine but I am having problems setting up networking with the result that I have no internet access from my Arch install.

I have read there are problems with the r8169 kernel module in that it doesn't work so well with some Realtek ethernet devices.  Indeed, the ArchWiki entry for the Acer Aspire One says "use module r8169 for eth0 support with kernel version >=2.6.26".  However, 2008.06 Overlord comes with kernel version 2.6.25 and I can't simply pacman -Syu as I don't have any internet access.  However, I do have internet access through the Acer Aspire One's (default) Linpus Linux install, so I thought I could download the right packages to the USB pendrive using Linpus and then reboot into Arch linux (on the USB pendrive) and install the latest (2.6.26) kernel.  The problem is, I don't know the packages I need and the steps I need to take.

I think I just need to:

1.  download (wget) the ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/os/i686 … pkg.tar.gz package;
2.  then 'pacman -U kernel26-2.6.26.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz';
3.  then 'mkinitcpio -k 2.6.26.5-1-i686 -g /boot/kernel26-2.6.25.5-1-i686.img'; and
4.  then configure GRUB for the above two (kernel and .img) files.

Is this correct?  I've never done this before so I would appreciate some guidance before I end up unknowingly hosing my USB's install.

Kind regards

Last edited by Shagbag (2008-09-22 17:01:27)

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#2 2008-09-21 20:22:10

lucke
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Re: [SOLVED] Need 2.6.26 kernel but don't have internet access

Wget that pkg from Linpus, boot into Arch, do pacman -U pkg and you're done.

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#3 2008-09-21 21:37:14

pyther
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Re: [SOLVED] Need 2.6.26 kernel but don't have internet access

1. Download the pkg and save it to your usb stick.
2. Reboot
3. Mount flash drive and cd to mount point
4. Run pacman -U kernel26-2.6.26.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

You should be done. If you get any package conflicts make note of them, pass the -d switch to ignore dependencies. After a reboot and once you get network access make sure you install the conflicted packages.


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#4 2008-09-22 17:01:07

Shagbag
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Re: [SOLVED] Need 2.6.26 kernel but don't have internet access

Thanks guys.  I did as suggested/confirmed.  Ethernet seems to be fine now.  The 2.6.26 kernel did depend on the two madwifi packages in core so after I installed the kernel (-Ud) and saw the errors, I repeated the above procedure with the two packages with the result that I'm no longer getting any error messages when I boot.

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