kernel devices (eth0, wlan0) is not present

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Greetings,
I installed a fresh version of openSuSE 11.3. Everything was clean, but the network card is not configured. It is an internal nic on an HP DC7900 convertible tower/desktop. Here is the error message from YaST:


82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection not configured.

Unable to configure the network card because the kernel devices (eth0, wlan0) is not present.  This is mostly caused by missing firmware (for wlan devices).  See dmesg output for details

I couldn’t view the dmesg file for more info.

thanks in advance for the help

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openSuSE 11.3

Is that the truth?

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Let’s just say it’s nostalgia. I’m also tired of having to mess with 13. No offense to anyone, but it bloated and has issues.

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Maybe your “new” Network Cards are not supportet by the old Kernel shipped with openSUSE 11.3?

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
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Yes, that is my guess, and needed help.
Thanks for the code.
I’ll check it tonight and post the results.

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Probably not openSUSE.
But many things around it (like the Desktop) are enormously bigger.

You might want to try a different Desktop.
The 13.2/LXDE I run typically can run on as little as 1GB RAM (but depending on loads generally configured with 2GB RAM), don’t require a large fs footprint and run <everything> I need (which would not be the case with any 11.x).

TSU

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Looks like a DC7900 is vintage approx 2008-2011, so it’s probably not that different than when 11.3 was released and supported.

Still, that was approx the time the Linux kernel was undergoing major re-structuring and all drivers were User-mode.
You may need to identify the NIC (others have described how to get the technical id), then Google for Linux support at that time.

At that time HP also supported SUSE, so may have separate Linux driver downloads from their site (search the HP support forums).

TSU

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Took a different approach and put in an old network card. That fixed it. Thanks for the help all.

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I would have chosen 11.4 – Evergreen, It was around for a long time and is very stable with fairly recent security patches. It uses the 3.0.101 kernel, but I have a few using a 3.9.2 kernel.