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Devo

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 3

HWDetect can't detect my ethernet card

My computer is a Inspiron 530 and my eithernet card is Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection. I'm trying to install from the FTP CD and I can't get past step 0, it won't detect my ethernet card at all... I think lspci will list it, but it won't load it or w/e... So I read somewhere on the wiki that I should use modprobe... but I have to use a module and someone on the IRC channel recommended using ndiswrapper... well, with ndiswrapper, I need some .inf file form a driver... and I have no idea where to find that... This is becoming increasingly complicated. I really want to use Arch, but this is not being so nice. Ubuntu would work fine on my computer, or is working fine at the moment... I know Ubuntu is not Arch but... I would think there would be similar hardware detection technology. I wish I understood how the install process worked better. I feel blind at the moment.

ScriptDevil

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From: In Front of My PC

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Re: HWDetect can't detect my ethernet card

get the core installer. Install only the base. Later, in the installed system, it is easy to configure it.

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Devo

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 3

Re: HWDetect can't detect my ethernet card

get the core installer. Install only the base. Later, in the installed system, it is easy to configure it.

Can I install the core system with the FTP CD? I'm not sure how to do this either.

Endperform

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From: Atlanta GA, USA

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 94

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Re: HWDetect can't detect my ethernet card

get the core installer. Install only the base. Later, in the installed system, it is easy to configure it.

If he's using the 2007 core CD, it will not work as I just tried this install last night and I have the same problem.  The 2008 rc core CD had problems booting for me, so that may not be a solution either.