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I am currently at Chap 7 from the handbook... nowhere near X yet. I have |
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the basic system installed, and am nearing the reboot. I'm trying to find |
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out what I need to have in modules.autoload.d ... |
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John D |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Ted Ozolins [mailto:ted1@×××××.net] |
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:45 AM |
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To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] network driver |
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John Dangler wrote: |
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>With the laptop base build running, I took my old file server (P3 running |
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>old m$) and decided to convert this to a test server for web dev. I just |
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>went with a stage 3 and genkernel (never tried this before), and the basics |
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>went fine. I'm up to chap 7.e (looking for .ko), and I need to make sure |
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>that the nic comes up on reboot. The card is a Linksys NC100 |
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>(NetworkEverywhere) card. From what I've read googling and such - |
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>a) I couldn't find a driver, except for win (network-drivers.com) |
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>b) I think the windows wrapper is tulip, but am not sure |
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>One of the google threads I found talked about someone using 'tulip', and |
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>another part of that thread mentioned ndiswrappers. |
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>I would like to think that coldplug and the genkernel way of compiling |
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>just 'see' the nic card and come up, but I've been wrong before about that. |
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>Any input is appreciated. |
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>(I also have an ATI video card in here [Radeon RT100 QY (Radeon 7000 VE), |
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>if there's some similar homework I need to do on this one, please share) |
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I should have added this to my last post. For your radeon card, use the |
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radeon driver in xorg.conf |
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Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) |
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