No network devices detected?

[Kaftan]

I just installed Kubuntu 6.10 on my new computer and to my horror it cant seem to detect any networking devices.

The NIC is a Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-e Gigabit Ethernet Controller that is on-board my ASUS P5B-E Plus motherboard (http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...3&l2=11&l3=307)


Is this fixeable or is my hardware simply not supported and I should find another distro?

[baneberry]

Re: No network devices detected?

I have the same issue, and so far the only flavor of linux that I've got to work is Debian. Of course, ordinairy Debian won't work. You have download sarge-custom-1115.iso from the AMDD64 section (not from the i386 section at the top of the page!) at

http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/

There is one additional bit of information that you must know that isn't documented anywhere, and is exceptionally confusing. This a net installation of Debian, and so once you get the base system running, you have to download the rest from a Debian repository. Now,if you know about Debian, you would guess that since the installer says "sarge", you should download from the stable repositories, but you would be wrong! You have to change the Debian repository to a testing one. For instance,

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main

worked for me. You make this change when offered the choice of several ways to finish the install

http
ftp
cd
edit sources by hand (or something like that)

You select edit source by hand--which puts you into a nano editor. The nano editor is easy to use. All the relevent keys are listed at the bottom. (^ means the control key.) You add the line

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main

or the appropriate debian repository for where you live.

You can keep or eliminate the line already there. It's commented out anyway. (The "#" sign comments out a line.)

[arochester]

Re: No network devices detected?

I came across this blog at http://blog.wolfman.com/articles/tag/ubuntu

He uses the same Asus P5B-E Motherboard.

He says "I had to plug in an old PCI Ethernet card I had lying around as the Gig Ethernet controller is not recognized even in Edgy."