Re: [Astlinux-users] new installation from Mac OSX Lion

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

Shamus,

If you're seeing that rc.modules is read only, you do not have a unionfs partition (which you will need to make changes to that file).

You can try:

      modprobe r8169

To see if that is in-fact, the correct module for that board (I'm pretty sure it is since I have one of the Jetway with a C7).

Also, to be clear, the new runnix-4 files are not usable with the 0.7.x branch at all.  The 1.0.x branch needs a new version of runnix because the version of squashfs changed (and is not backwards compatible).

Darrick

From: Shamus Rask [mailto:sh...@sr...]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:02 AM
To: astlinux-users
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] new installation from Mac OSX Lion

I was able to go and purchase a different 4GB CF card yesterday and tried again--same result. This got me thinking that maybe my motherboard was having some sort of other issue with the current release. I downloaded AstLinux 0.7.7 (prior to current RUNNIX release) and tried again... this time, success! I think the culprit is RUNNIX, but have no way to be certain at this point.

That being said, I've run into a new problem. My motherboard uses a RealTek chip for the GigE ports (Jetway mini-ITX board based on VIA C7). Using the VIA C7 image, the Ethernet ports are not initialized. Logging in from the CLI, I see that R8169 is commented out in /etc/rc.modules, but when I try to uncomment I get an error saying the file is read-only.

Two questions:
1. Are the R8169 drivers included in the VIA C7 image?
2. If so, how do I got about modifying files so that the correct drivers are modprobed?

many thanks,
   Shamus





>Shamus,

>

>Yes, the file structure looks good.  The .Trashes and .Spotlight-V100 files>/dirs cause no harm.

>

>Time to try a new CF card.

>

>Lonnie