nybigjet
2006-09-06, 08:27 PM CDT
A phoneline network is connecting several machines in various rooms around my home. They communicate mostly booted into Windows 98, although a Debian 3.1 distribution (with 2.4 kernel) easily reads and writes to all the vfat partitions on the (esentially) Windows network using SQUID. All the machines have HPNA pci plugin cards. My latest motherboard, an Asus AMD 64 dual core, is using the Compaq 10 MBPS HPNA USB Network Adapter. It works great in Windows 98 (and of course not at all in Microsoft XPu 64.) I think Fedora Core 5_64 has properly installed the IPAQ USB device, but I can't get it to work.
This machine uses 2 Nics, The Asus MB has a built in Nic (VT6102 Rhine-II using the via-rhine driver) this Nic is eth0 and running my broadband - the Fedora install for this Nic was the smoothest ever, the Internet was online on the initial bootup. I was impressed.
The second Nic is the IPAQ HPNA USB device. The driver is built into the kernel uing "Pegasus II" (seen here in items 109-110, http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/source/linux-2.6.16-xen/drivers/usb/net/pegasus.h ) The Fedora boot screen gives me a red FAILED for eth1, which is the IPAQ device. But, when I check the Hardware Browser > System devices, it lists "Broadmedia 10Mbps HomePNA USB Adapter" right on top, and my only other USB device, "USB DIGITAL STILL CAMERA" underneath. The camera pops up a photo viewer when I plug it in - real cool. When I check Network Configuration > Hardware, it lists "USB CDC Ethernet driver" Type "Ethernet" Device "eth1" Status "configured", and under the Devices tab "Inactive." When I click Activate, a red X pops up saying "Cannot activate network device eth1" "usbnet device eth1:0 does not seem to be present"
Here's my question: Is the HPNA USB Nic installed? If so, how do I activate it?
This seems to be one of those CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR situations.
Regards all --nybigjet
This machine uses 2 Nics, The Asus MB has a built in Nic (VT6102 Rhine-II using the via-rhine driver) this Nic is eth0 and running my broadband - the Fedora install for this Nic was the smoothest ever, the Internet was online on the initial bootup. I was impressed.
The second Nic is the IPAQ HPNA USB device. The driver is built into the kernel uing "Pegasus II" (seen here in items 109-110, http://lxr.xensource.com/lxr/source/linux-2.6.16-xen/drivers/usb/net/pegasus.h ) The Fedora boot screen gives me a red FAILED for eth1, which is the IPAQ device. But, when I check the Hardware Browser > System devices, it lists "Broadmedia 10Mbps HomePNA USB Adapter" right on top, and my only other USB device, "USB DIGITAL STILL CAMERA" underneath. The camera pops up a photo viewer when I plug it in - real cool. When I check Network Configuration > Hardware, it lists "USB CDC Ethernet driver" Type "Ethernet" Device "eth1" Status "configured", and under the Devices tab "Inactive." When I click Activate, a red X pops up saying "Cannot activate network device eth1" "usbnet device eth1:0 does not seem to be present"
Here's my question: Is the HPNA USB Nic installed? If so, how do I activate it?
This seems to be one of those CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR situations.
Regards all --nybigjet