"No supported Network Cards Found"

[Angryguy]

I just downloaded and burned Knoppix 3.2. I've never used Linux before (except for CygWin for my Comp Sci class).

I'm trying to connect to my home network/internet on Knoppix without success. The netcardconfig and it's graphical counterpart both give me the message that "No Supported Network Cards found." I'd appreciate any help/advise on how to get it working, without the internet using an alternate OS looses interest rather quickly.

My computer's specs are below, thanks.

Dell Dimension 4100
Pentium 3 933 mHz with 384 MB RAM
NVidia Geforce 2 MX 32 MB Video Card
Dual boot with Windows XP and Windows Me (on two seperate HDs)
HomeClick/ 3Com Phoneline Networking Card (networked to my other computer running Win 98 SE connnected to the DSL modem)

[ktheking]

First thing you gotta do is find out what's the hardware inside your pc.

With this pc there's a onboard LAN (network) present.

Before asking any question ,always give this info in your questions.

If you don't know this you can go to the constructors site (http://www.dell.com) and search more about your computer,you can use
a search site like google or you can open your pc and look what inside.

A hint with Dell computers manipulating the ACPI in the BIOS.

Watch it ! Before doiing such stuff ,make sure you got a another computer near you with internet connection ,so you still can search info when the shit hits the fence .

So what is the onboard chip used for your LAN ?

[Angryguy]

If you look at the last line of my original post, I did list my network card. The Dell Dimension 4100 does not come with an onboard Network Card of any kind. I did buy the computer with the 3COM Home Phoneline Network Card (which comes with Microsoft's HomeClick Networking software for Win 98 SE/Me). It works under Win XP without problems as well using automatically configured drivers.

I've noticed on a few other posts where users have had similar problems that they were asked to post the output of certain Linux commands, so I've gotten the output from those commands and included it below. As Zoinks said earlier, there seem to be a large number of new users to these boards that experience these networking problems, yet there doesn't seem to be many answers or any documentation/FAQs on this problem around.

ifconfig -a

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:200 (200.0 b) TX bytes:200 (200.0 b)

lsmod

Module Size Used by Not tainted
autofs4 8724 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2876 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4380 0 (autoclean)
agpgart 34592 0 (unused)
es1371 32008 0
gameport 1276 0 [es1371]
ac97_codec 10696 0 [es1371]
soundcore 3364 4 [es1371]
i810_rng 2628 0 (unused)
serial 51844 0 (autoclean)
hid 19268 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [hid]
usb-uhci 21868 0 (unused)
usbcore 57376 1 [hid usb-uhci]
apm 9768 2
rtc 6908 0 (autoclean)
cloop 7940 2

lspci -v

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: fc800000-fe8fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e4500000-f45fffff

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fe900000-feafffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f4600000-f46fffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4541
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4541
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
I/O ports at ef80 [size=32]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4541
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at efa0 [size=16]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 004a
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at fe8f0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

This one appears to be my network card, although it is apparently detected as an "unkown device".
02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc (nee Epigram) BCM4210 iLine10 HomePNA 2.0 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 4100
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fea7f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V, AudioPCI128
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at df00 [size=64]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

02:0d.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 02)
Subsystem: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at dff0 [size=8]
I/O ports at dfe4 [size=4]
I/O ports at dfa8 [size=8]
I/O ports at dfe0 [size=4]
I/O ports at df90 [size=16]
Expansion ROM at fea80000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

Thanks again for any advise or help you can give.

[Angryguy]

I could still use a solution to this problem if anyone can help.

[geezer]

Any help?

http://www.homepna.org/support/faqs.asp#FAQ6_Q1