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I have a new computer and want to use my puppy which I have saved and configured on an usb-device and which successfully runs on an old machine (http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=101288).

On the new computer, Precise-Puppy is not detecting the ethernet device. What I know is, that the old machine uses the r8169 driver. With Ubuntu, the new machine uses the e1000e driver (via lspci -v) which works fine. The same (similar?) driver is also part Precise-Puppy.

I added the e1000e module to be loaded when Precise-Puppy is booting and lsmod shows the module, similar as if Ubuntu is loaded. But if I run lspci -n via Ubuntu, I get "Kernel driver in use: e1000e" which is missing using Precise-puppy.

Anyone any idea what I missed? Do I have to blacklist the r8169-module?

Thanks in advance.

Your old machine is a Lenovo.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=101288

What are your new specs.

Chris.

cthisbear wrote:Your old machine is a Lenovo.

No, the new one is a Lenovo.

What infos do you need in particular?

So I checked the messages from boot via dmesg:

Something like (this is copied from https://askubuntu.com/questions/650953/ ... ot-working because I have the real output not at hand):

[ 0.847256] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 2.3.2-k
[ 0.847260] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2014 Intel Corporation.

and then there is no further message anymore.

For the old machine, dmesg shows in addition to the stuff above

link up

messages for the r8169 driver. Moreover, ifconfig -a returns on the lenovo machine the lo-interface and a

usb0

No one any idea?

I downloaded the current e1000e driver version:

3.2.7.1 (you can check this via modinfo)

from sourceforge and compiled it (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS uses 2.3.2). I exchanged the e1000e.ko files and loaded the new module via

modprobe e1000e

Now eth0 is working.

Regards,
Graf_Koks