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From: Henri Magnin <henri.magnin@××××.net>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:03:51
Message-Id: 20041023100955.77833148045@bel.hittite.isp.9tel.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop by Michael Rutledge
1 Hi
2
3 Thanks for so quick and kind response.
4 I also had an e-mail from another person in the mailing list,
5 who suggested me to really reboot with my new kernel rather than
6 simply CHROOTing and checking what was available under /dev...
7
8 Indeed, the /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 appeared and was operational when I
9 really rebooted Gentoo from my hard disk.
10
11 But I now face other difficulties. I do not have any eth0 available, even the
12 cable link one (I also have WiFi, but expected to configure this later). Just
13 'lo' appears in ifconfig...
14 I tried 'genkernel all' (rather than 'make menuconfig / make / make
15 modules_install'), but eth0 is not recognized anymore; although the
16 'universal install' CD does (I really wonder how its kernel is built ;-)...
17
18 I think I will give up and move to a Suze with 2.6.x kernel since I did not
19 expect to spend a full week having an operational Linux on my machine.
20 - I think I will backup what I've done with Gentoo and come back to it later
21 on... -
22
23 Anyway, thanks again for your help.
24
25 Regards
26 Henri
27
28 Le Samedi 23 Octobre 2004 04:22, vous avez écrit :
29 > I'm not familiar with an ASUS laptop, but I know that a Sony VAIO has
30 > a firewire bus for the cdrom. You might want to check to see if your
31 > cdrom is firewire or IDE. When you use your gentoo boot CD, try lsmod
32 > and see if it is loading any special firewire drivers. This might can
33 > help you find out.
34 >
35 > -Michael
36 >
37 >
38 > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:19:08 +0200, Jaroslav Sladek
39 >
40 > <jaroslav.sladek@×××××.com> wrote:
41 > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:29:03 +0200, Henri Magnin <henri.magnin@××××.net>
42 wrote:
43 > > > Hi
44 > > >
45 > > > I recently purchased an Asus M6 (Centrino 1.6GHz), and did not want to
46 > > > bother anymore with the Windoze Family stuff.
47 > > >
48 > > > I wanted to install a modular Linux, which I could master and upgrade
49 > > > as I like.
50 > > > I earlier tried muliple other distributions (Aurox, Mandrake), but I
51 > > > did no longer expect to have any "straightforward" or "magic" install
52 > > > which was too tricky to update in future.
53 > > >
54 > > > I downloaded Gentoo 2004.2, started from stage3 (in a first trial), and
55 > > > compiled a 2.6.7 kernel.
56 > > >
57 > > > All was Ok, I even compiled X11 and kde and ati_drivers, to try employ
58 > > > at best my Radeon 9700 graphics card.
59 > > >
60 > > > My concern is about the CD-Rom on my own (very new) linux install.
61 > > > When booting from the install boot CD-Rom, I have a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
62 > > > device.
63 > > >
64 > > > But in the /dev of my hard-disk install, there is no such entry. So
65 > > > when I chroot to it, I can no more see the CD-Rom device.
66 > >
67 > > You mean when you chroot to your harddisk after booting from CD?
68 > > That's not a big deal, since gentoo uses devfs (or udev) which gets
69 > > initialized during boot up sequence and actually creates all needed
70 > > devices in /dev of your root filesystem.
71 > >
72 > > But if I misunderstood you and you're not seeing you CD rom device in
73 > > /dev of your harddisk AFTER you booted your new kernel, then you
74 > > probably forget something in kernel config. Most likely, you should
75 > > have option "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support" checked under Device
76 > > drivers->IDE/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support menu.
77 > >
78 > > Jaroslav Sladek
79 > >
80 > >
81 > >
82 > > --
83 > > gentoo-laptop@g.o mailing list
84
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RE: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop Spencer McGuire <spencerm@××××××××××.net>