On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:42:33PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: > Umm... this is an old netbook, the NIC adapter has always been working, > it's a very common chipset. > > Good point. > > While this is a 2 GiB RAM netbook, last time I checked only i386 and > -pae kernel were working, but I can try again with amd64 image. > > (testing right now...) > > Well, the net-iso (64 bits) just loads fine. Logs here say (I must have > mispelled the ID before):
Well it is an atom based machine. Some were 64 bit capable, some were not. > «r8169 0000:01:00.0 unknown chip XID 240». Yeah the driver does not have that id in it. I guess it was a version used only by HP/Compaq and no one ever tried to run linux on it or at least no one that did cared about wired networking. It might be a trivial case of adding the id to match one of the other revisions to make it work, but without the datasheet it is hard to know. > Again, no wired NIC available. > > My netbook is a Compaq Mini CQ10-520ES, currently running a looong- > standing Debian testing version and... well, okay, kernel says the same, > the NIC card is not being recognized, same message «unknown chip XID > 240». > > As this computer always uses the wireless adapter, I simply ignored the > wired NIC had been unavailable until now. > > This can be relevant: > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/689563 Given it has HP as the subsystem id in the link, I suspect this id is a custom branded chip made for HP which hence has a unique ID, but is probably otherwise identical to another id. The wireless probably requires firmware, so it might work if booted with the non-free firmware version of the installer. -- Len Sorensen
