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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Michael George wrote: |
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> I've spend the most of the past 4 evenings trying to get gentoo to install on |
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> my PowerMac. Bone stock, 800 Quicksilver. Nothing special, nothing strange. |
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> Reformatted the disk and followed the PPC install handbook. |
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> I built the defult picked ethernet drivers as modules and also the Sun GEM |
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> module (though I don't have gigabit eth). However, after going through all |
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> that, the system boots and it does not see that it has an ethernet card. |
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> Before this last complete install I had the drivers build into the kernel. |
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> Same results. |
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> But when booting from the 2004.1 CDROM, it sees the network with no problem. |
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> Is the 2.6 kernel on ppc kinda buggy/broken? Anyone have a clue what might be |
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> the problem? |
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have you configured your card correctly? -> /etc/conf.d/net, rc-update and |
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so on.. |
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what says ifconfig? |
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the kernel is not broken. |
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