[Novalug] Connecting CentOS 5.3 on a netbook

[David A. Cafaro]

What does "/sbin/ifconfig -a" report now?

As for the rpm's I'd assume that it was just a simple su to root and  
"rpm -ivh" like you said.

Let's see what ifconfig -a reports, and that may let us know what the  
next step is.

Cheers,
David


David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>
Cafaro's Ramblings:  www.cafaro.net



On Apr 27, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Beartooth wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> 	[...]
>> I did a quick google and found this page:
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Asus/Eeepc
>
> 	Something there is farther beyond me than I recognized.
>
>> Though they speak of the EeePC 900 that's basically the same  
>> hardware as your 701, but more storage and bigger screen. That page  
>> also confirms that CentOS doesn't have the drivers for your network  
>> hardware.  They do provide a link to where you can download drivers  
>> that someone else has made.  The driver RPM's are here:
>>
>> http://rpms.arrfab.net/centos/5/eeepc/
>>
>> Hopefully those are still working and that can get you up and  
>> running once you install them.  You will have to trust their builds  
>> though, and hope they aren't doing something nefarious.  The other  
>> option is to find the driver sources mentioned and rebuild them  
>> your self, but that's a lot more work.
>
> 	After rebooting with the eeepc rpms installed, "service network  
> start" still fails with a note that the 3c501 device doesn't seem to  
> be present -- plus another saying dhclient is already running, which  
> it wasn't getting before.
>
> 	So yum isn't connecting, and the yum install doesn't work ...
>
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