[NBLUG/talk] USB ethernet adapter for Dell Optiplex 745?

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Sun Aug 11 12:45:16 PDT 2013


I would suggest utilizing your resources before throwing in the towel.  
I used to tell my students this, of which Alan was one them.

Mepis is Debian based last I checked...  That chipset should be 
supported and still is.  I have several of these older machines and 
frequently boot into Knoppix on them.  What kernel modules are loaded?  
lsmod | grep bxn2

What do you see?
Do you see any errors for the interface during boot or after? boot.log
Do you actually see the interface if you run ifconfig?  Are there errors 
in the ifconfig ouput?

Try this one:  rmmod bnx2 && modprobe bnx2
See if it works now.

Much more to learn, very little time....

Best Regards,



On 8/9/2013 2:51 PM, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> I am having problems connecting with Ethernet on Dell Optiplex 745 
> (onboard Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI 
> Express) that Allan Cecil gave me--the light is steady amber when box 
> plugged in, and stays so always. According to Internet search that 
> might be common problem for Linux.
>
> Allan Cecil suggested USB ethernet adapters--I know nothing of those; 
> would you, please give me some intelligence on this?
>
> I installed Mepis AntiX on the machine ...
>
> Thank you, Hearthstone.
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