USB to ethernet

My pc doesn't hava a ethernet card and I use a USB to ethernet adapter.
I boot my pc with a live CD distribution (SLAX) and the adapter is
recognized without doing anything.
I install on this PC Linux CentOS 4. The installation is OK but the
adapter is not detected and it is mot possible to view the lan. What
can I do to configure the USB adapter?
Thank you, Francesco

"prendidol" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>My pc doesn't hava a ethernet card and I use a USB to ethernet adapter.
>I boot my pc with a live CD distribution (SLAX) and the adapter is
>recognized without doing anything.
>I install on this PC Linux CentOS 4. The installation is OK but the
>adapter is not detected and it is mot possible to view the lan. What
>can I do to configure the USB adapter?

Boot slax & run "lsmod" in a terminal window, making a list of the
loaded modules.

Do the same thing after booting your other distribution.

For each module in the slax list, that is not in the CentOS list, try
"modprobe [module name]". You may also need to run "dhcpc" to join
your network. It might work...

Also, in each distribution run "uname -a" to see which kernel version
is running - maybe you need a kernel update.
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bgeer wrote:
> "prendidol" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
> >My pc doesn't hava a ethernet card and I use a USB to ethernet adapter.
> >I boot my pc with a live CD distribution (SLAX) and the adapter is
> >recognized without doing anything.
> >I install on this PC Linux CentOS 4. The installation is OK but the
> >adapter is not detected and it is mot possible to view the lan. What
> >can I do to configure the USB adapter?
>
> Boot slax & run "lsmod" in a terminal window, making a list of the
> loaded modules.
>
> Do the same thing after booting your other distribution.
>
> For each module in the slax list, that is not in the CentOS list, try
> "modprobe [module name]". You may also need to run "dhcpc" to join
> your network. It might work...
>
> Also, in each distribution run "uname -a" to see which kernel version
> is running - maybe you need a kernel update.

I use a USB ethernet adapter and found that with FC5
(Fedora/RedHat/CentOS) I had to use System>>Administration>>Networking
to edit the already detected and listed device, selecting dhcp and
activation etc. My usb adapter is a Linksys, module name is (pegasus).
I must mention that I did not have to do that with Debian Sarge and
recent Ubuntu releases, it had already been detected and configured
during the install.