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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:29:27 -0400, Michael George <george@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I got my gentoo system installed on my 800MHz quicksilver powermac. It |
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> rebooted just fine, but it cannot find it's ethernet device. |
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> I build the MACE controller into the kernel, so I thought it would be all set. |
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> So, on my newly booted system, I went to /usr/src/linux and did a make |
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> menuconfig and I changed the built-in ethernet controllers to modules so that |
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> I could try to see if they would load and maybe get more debugging info. |
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> I rebuilt the kernel and moved it into place, but when I run mkofboot, it |
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> cannot get the open firmware address of my devices because sysfs is missing. |
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> I also got an error on startup that syslog-ng was not present (I removed it as |
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> per the instructions in teh handbook so that I could put the preferred logger |
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> in place). I removed what it said and metalog claims to be running, but dmesg |
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> has only error message and /var/log/messages is empty. |
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> So my questions: |
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> What device drivers for ethernet should I include for a quicksilver 800MHz and |
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> is there something I specifically have to do to enable it? |
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Try running lspci or "cat /proc/pci | more" and look for anything that |
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looks ethernet-y |
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> Why is sysfs missing? |
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> What did I miss that my system is still trying to run syslog-ng and why isn't |
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> metalog logging anything? |
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Did you update the rc scripts? |
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#rc-update del syslog-ng |
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#rc-update add metalog default |
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iBook 800MHz - Gentoo 2.6.8 |
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