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From: Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:56:06
Message-Id: 4AE85B84.1050705@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... by Dale
1 On 10/27/2009 09:42 PM, Dale wrote:
2 > Marcus Wanner wrote:
3 >
4 >> On 10/27/2009 9:28 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Am 28.10.2009 02:22, schrieb Marcus Wanner:
7 >>>
8 >>>
9 >>>> On 10/27/2009 8:36 PM, James wrote:
10 >>>>
11 >>>>
12 >>>>> Marcus Wanner <marcusw <at> cox.net> writes:
13 >>>>>
14 >>>>>
15 >>>>>
16 >>>>>
17 >>>>>
18 >>>>>> To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and
19 >>>>>> after that, what driver do I need?
20 >>>>>>
21 >>>>>>
22 >>>>> emerge lshw
23 >>>>> 'lshw <return>' may help
24 >>>>>
25 >>>>> hth,
26 >>>>> James
27 >>>>>
28 >>>>>
29 >>>> Except emerge won't work because internet won't work :(
30 >>>>
31 >>>>
32 >>> You have Internet to send this mails to the list.
33 >>> Get the source-packages by hand and copy them to your distdir
34 >>>
35 >>> Greetings
36 >>>
37 >>> Sebastian
38 >>>
39 >>>
40 >> And where is that? (new to gentoo, sorry)
41 >>
42 >> Marcus
43 >>
44 >>
45 >>
46 >
47 > emerge -pf lshw . That will give you links to where the files are, and
48 > the names of them all as well. Download them and copy them over to
49 > /usr/portage/distfiles then emerge them.
50 >
51 > Hope that helps.
52 >
53 > Dale
54 >
55 > :-) :-)
56 >
57 >
58 Thanks for that tip, it will come in handy.
59
60 Though, I think I will just try running the commands on the livecd like
61 Dale and Stroller suggested. Again, thanks anyway!
62
63 Marcus