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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:08:19PM -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote |
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> >I think eth0 is your FireWire port (IEEE 1394). |
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> >You did the right thing already (taking eth0 down). Now you can |
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> >install Gentoo and unless you configure support for Ethernet over |
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> >FireWire (or something similar) in your kernel you shouldn't have any |
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> >problem. |
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> >That was my experience anyway (with a different Asus board, but the |
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> >same behavior). |
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> Louis is right, you can also disable this behavior by adding |
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> "nofirewire" at the bootloader line that calls the kernel. |
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Thanks Daniel and Louis. With "nofirewire" the boot messages showed 2 |
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eth devices, but the real ethernet chip now comes up as eth0, which is |
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what I wanted. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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