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1. trevor
   Member

   I'm trying to use finnix to image iMacs in a school by copying disk images to/from a Windows server.

   Works fine on an iBook, but on an old iMag G3 (coloured tray loader) finnix boots OK but there is no network: ifconfig -a reports only lo. I've found what I think is the network card in the device tree with the right Mac address, and I don't see any obvious failures in /var/log/dmesg.

   I guess I'm missing a driver somewhere - any ideas as to where next? I would post the logs etc but without a network connection...

   Thanks,
   Trevor

   Posted Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:15:28 -0800

2. trevor
   Member

   I forgot to say this is vesion finnix ppc version 88.0.

   It seems the right driver is there, but wasn't picked up in the auto-detection. For anyone else with this problem:

   modprobe bmac
ifup eth0

   gets you running.

   Trevor

   Posted Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:47:44 -0800

3. rfinnie
   Administrator

   If you haven't already, could you submit a "finnix-hwsubmit" report? PCI autodetection is mostly dictated by the kernel itself, but it's not always perfect.

   Posted Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:39:50 -0700