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xanthus

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Registered: 2007-01-15

Posts: 7

Network doesn't work;/

Hi! I've bought a laptop: Samsung R510 and i wanted to install linux on it. But when i try to install Arch it says it can't configure network(ftp installation).
When i do lspci | grep -i net it says:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)

I've read that it is possible to install atheros but 5007 version.
Now, is there any possibility to run any of that cards?;/
Thanks in advance.

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,224

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Re: Network doesn't work;/

http://hardware4linux.info/component/27642/

It seems the 'sky2' module provides this functionality. I'm not sure if it's included in core. Boot the LiveCD and see if it's already started by running 'lsmod | grep ^sky'. If it's not listed, try 'modprobe sky2'

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thomasknowles

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From: England

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 38

Re: Network doesn't work;/

2 years ago I had nothing but trouble with the sky2 driver in Debian, I ended up installing OpenBSD on my server instead.