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Maybe you should have found out what hardware was in your computer before |
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linux install, it is always helpful to have a full list of hardware when |
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dealing with a laptop, and knowing which modules/ drivers you need for |
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everything, I have had my troubles with linux but just stuck it through till |
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the end, when everything is working great. BTW, I have a tablet pc, you |
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thought a weekend was bad, try a month to get everything working. |
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Spencer |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Henri Magnin [mailto:henri.magnin@××××.net] |
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Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:07 AM |
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To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop |
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Hi |
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Thanks for so quick and kind response. |
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I also had an e-mail from another person in the mailing list, |
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who suggested me to really reboot with my new kernel rather than |
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simply CHROOTing and checking what was available under /dev... |
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Indeed, the /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 appeared and was operational when I |
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really rebooted Gentoo from my hard disk. |
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But I now face other difficulties. I do not have any eth0 available, even |
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the |
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cable link one (I also have WiFi, but expected to configure this later). |
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Just |
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'lo' appears in ifconfig... |
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I tried 'genkernel all' (rather than 'make menuconfig / make / make |
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modules_install'), but eth0 is not recognized anymore; although the |
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'universal install' CD does (I really wonder how its kernel is built ;-)... |
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I think I will give up and move to a Suze with 2.6.x kernel since I did not |
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expect to spend a full week having an operational Linux on my machine. |
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- I think I will backup what I've done with Gentoo and come back to it later |
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on... - |
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Anyway, thanks again for your help. |
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Regards |
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Henri |
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Le Samedi 23 Octobre 2004 04:22, vous avez écrit : |
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> I'm not familiar with an ASUS laptop, but I know that a Sony VAIO has |
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> a firewire bus for the cdrom. You might want to check to see if your |
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> cdrom is firewire or IDE. When you use your gentoo boot CD, try lsmod |
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> and see if it is loading any special firewire drivers. This might can |
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> help you find out. |
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> |
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> -Michael |
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> |
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> |
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> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:19:08 +0200, Jaroslav Sladek |
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> |
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> <jaroslav.sladek@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:29:03 +0200, Henri Magnin <henri.magnin@××××.net> |
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wrote: |
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> > > Hi |
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> > > |
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> > > I recently purchased an Asus M6 (Centrino 1.6GHz), and did not want to |
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> > > bother anymore with the Windoze Family stuff. |
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> > > |
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> > > I wanted to install a modular Linux, which I could master and upgrade |
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> > > as I like. |
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> > > I earlier tried muliple other distributions (Aurox, Mandrake), but I |
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> > > did no longer expect to have any "straightforward" or "magic" install |
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> > > which was too tricky to update in future. |
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> > > |
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> > > I downloaded Gentoo 2004.2, started from stage3 (in a first trial), |
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and |
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> > > compiled a 2.6.7 kernel. |
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> > > |
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> > > All was Ok, I even compiled X11 and kde and ati_drivers, to try employ |
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> > > at best my Radeon 9700 graphics card. |
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> > > |
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> > > My concern is about the CD-Rom on my own (very new) linux install. |
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> > > When booting from the install boot CD-Rom, I have a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 |
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> > > device. |
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> > > |
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> > > But in the /dev of my hard-disk install, there is no such entry. So |
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> > > when I chroot to it, I can no more see the CD-Rom device. |
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> > |
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> > You mean when you chroot to your harddisk after booting from CD? |
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> > That's not a big deal, since gentoo uses devfs (or udev) which gets |
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> > initialized during boot up sequence and actually creates all needed |
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> > devices in /dev of your root filesystem. |
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> > |
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> > But if I misunderstood you and you're not seeing you CD rom device in |
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> > /dev of your harddisk AFTER you booted your new kernel, then you |
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> > probably forget something in kernel config. Most likely, you should |
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> > have option "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support" checked under Device |
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> > drivers->IDE/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support menu. |
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> > |
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> > Jaroslav Sladek |
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> > |
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> > |
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