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From: Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:53:10
Message-Id: 865773ce0902151352l238b3279x1c07b5a8cdc07dd0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade by Dirk Heinrichs
1 On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Dirk Heinrichs
2 <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> wrote:
3 > Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 22:31:40 schrieb Guillermo Garron:
4 >
5 >> Here you can find the config file for my current kernel.
6 >
7 > This has CONFIG_E1000=y
8 >
9 >> And the used to generate the new kernel (where NIC is not detected)
10 >
11 > This has both CONFIG_E1000=y and CONFIG_E1000E=y, maybe that's the problem.
12 >
13 > What does lspci -v tell about the used driver? Anything useful in the dmesg
14 > output?
15
16 Hi,
17 Thanks for your prompt response.
18
19 Here is the output of this command
20
21 sudo lspci -v | grep Ether
22
23 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network
24 Connection (rev 02)
25
26 >
27 > BTW: There are also some other NICs enabled in both your configs.
28
29 Yes, that is because I am not good a compiling kernels and did not
30 know how to discover what NIC I have to enable only that driver or
31 module. :(
32
33 >
34 > HTH...
35 >
36 > Dirk
37 >
38
39
40
41 --
42 Guillermo Garron
43 "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
44 (Using Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo)
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46 http://www.go2linux.org

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Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>