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This may be a bit offtopic but I need some help

[Wisgary]

I am no Linux/Unix expert, and I recently installed Ubuntu 5.10 as a dual boot on a second hard drive on my PC. It works just fine, but my damn ethernet port just doesn't feel like working on it, or rather, DHCP doesn't feel like working. The card seems to be detected but during initial setup DHCP didn't work correctly, and when I got to the actual OS it just didn't want to give me ethernet access. I used to have a KS75A motherboard with Ubuntu, and it detected the network card on that one just fine. But I recently upgraded and now I have a ASRock 939 motherboard, which has an integrated ethernet port which Windows recognizes as "ULi PCI Fast Ethernet Card". Anyone know where I can get some linux drivers for this thing, if that's the problem, or if not how I can get this thing online? And I know, I'll try setting up all the info and IPs manually to see if it works but I think this might be a driver problem I dunno... I couldn't even go into my router or modem's config pages. Any suggestions about where my problem lies?

Re:This may be a bit offtopic but I need some help

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to have a KS75A motherboard with Ubuntu, and it detected the network card on that one just fine. But I recently upgraded and now I have a ASRock 939 motherboard, which has an integrated ethernet port which Windows recognizes as "ULi PCI Fast Ethernet Card". Anyone know where I can get some linux drivers for this thing, if that's the problem, or if not how I can get this thing online?

The ULi network drivers are included with the official kernels. Try doing a

$ sudo modprobe uli526x

to see if you already have it. If you don't have it you could try another distro or build it from source. You'll want to turn on ULi M526x controller support under Device Drivers > Network Device Support > Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) > Tulip family network device support.

Someone asked a similar question on the Fedora mailing list.

iMac Duo Core + EFI

[iamstan]

The new iMacs do not use an antiquated PC bios, they use EFI. New game.