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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:39:58
Message-Id: 200910280138.50104.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... by Marcus Wanner
1 On Wednesday 28 October 2009 01:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote:
2 > Hi!
3 >
4 > I just followed the (excellent, easily understandable) gentoo
5 > installation handbook up to chapter 10, where it says to reboot. I did
6 > so, but I had the same problem as the user here:
7 > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/networking-eth0-
8 > does-not-exist-gentoo-349330/
9 >
10 > As suggested in there, I have recompiled the kernel with the tulip
11 > drivers (everything under the tulip subtree in make menuconfig), copied
12 > it to /boot, and booted it, but it still gives the same message. I have
13 > verified that I am booting the newly compiled kernel with the tulip
14 > drivers, but it still doesn't work.
15 >
16 > Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the
17 > link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name
18 > is, besides the fact that the name includes "Tornado". Also note that it
19 > worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd.
20 >
21 > To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after
22 > that, what driver do I need?
23
24 Post this output:
25
26 lspci
27 dmesg | grep <something_relevant>
28
29 --
30 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>