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Matt3232

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Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 11

What happened to hardware detection?

I installed Arch on a machine using the new x86_64 core USB image and upon the first boot I found that my network would not initialize properly.  Looking at my rc.conf I saw that no modules were listed and I realized that the installer never asked to automatically detect hardware.  What happened to this feature?  I can confirm that this also occurs on the i686 core USB image.

whaevr

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 182

Re: What happened to hardware detection?

Is this line still in your rc.conf?

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"

Because my module list consists of this:

MODULES=(fuse)

Everything else the first line gets..

Matt3232

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Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 11

Re: What happened to hardware detection?

I've got MOD_AUTOLOAD enabled, my modules line is empty.  Network refuses to start, I just get "eth0: timed out" and I know that it worked with the older release.  Am I missing something?

whaevr

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 182

Re: What happened to hardware detection?

Is your network configured correctly?

Try this in terminal:

sudo dhcpcd eth0

Anything?

Matt3232

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Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 11

Re: What happened to hardware detection?

Okay, out of nowhere it started working, then stopped again.  I tried enabling WOL and some other things suggested in the wiki but that didn't help.  Something's causing it to flake out, maybe something in a recent kernel update?

dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: What happened to hardware detection?

I guess you are refering to hwdetect http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 00322.html

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Matt3232

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Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 11

Re: What happened to hardware detection?

That clears things up, thanks.  I think I've got some troubleshooting to do.

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: What happened to hardware detection?

You can still use it if you want to, but its in [extra] now

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