Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with gentoo on bone-stock powermac

[Michael George]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:15:53AM -0700, stuporglue wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:15:01 -0400, Michael George
> <george@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > I've spend the most of the past 4 evenings trying to get gentoo to install on
> > my PowerMac.  Bone stock, 800 Quicksilver.  Nothing special, nothing strange.
> >
> > Reformatted the disk and followed the PPC install handbook.
> >
> > I built the defult picked ethernet drivers as modules and also the Sun GEM
> > module (though I don't have gigabit eth).  However, after going through all
> > that, the system boots and it does not see that it has an ethernet card.
> >
> > Before this last complete install I had the drivers build into the kernel.
> > Same results.
> >
> > But when booting from the 2004.1 CDROM, it sees the network with no problem.
> >
> > Is the 2.6 kernel on ppc kinda buggy/broken?  Anyone have a clue what might be
> > the problem?
>
> If you built them as modules, you need to load them for the device to
> show up. You can auto load them at boot by editing
> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, or you can manually load them
> afterwards.To see the modules you can load run "modprobe -l" as root.
> Odds are there are a bunch of them, so you may want to try "modprobe
> -l | grep ***" substituting sun, gem, eth, net, or other things that
> may show up in a module name. When you have the module name, run
> (again, as root) "modprobe gem" or whatever it is.

You were right, I have to have the system automatically load the module for
the ethernet driver.  I guess I was used to SuSE and RHL where the right
kernel modules "just work".  I guess I could build the Sun GEM driver into the
kernel and then there would be no problems, either.  Before I had the wrong
driver built in...

Thanks!

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