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From: Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:32:23
Message-Id: 4AE79F24.3060002@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... by Alan McKinnon
1 On 10/27/2009 7:38 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 28 October 2009 01:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi!
5 >>
6 >> I just followed the (excellent, easily understandable) gentoo
7 >> installation handbook up to chapter 10, where it says to reboot. I did
8 >> so, but I had the same problem as the user here:
9 >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/networking-eth0-
10 >> does-not-exist-gentoo-349330/
11 >>
12 >> As suggested in there, I have recompiled the kernel with the tulip
13 >> drivers (everything under the tulip subtree in make menuconfig), copied
14 >> it to /boot, and booted it, but it still gives the same message. I have
15 >> verified that I am booting the newly compiled kernel with the tulip
16 >> drivers, but it still doesn't work.
17 >>
18 >> Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the
19 >> link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name
20 >> is, besides the fact that the name includes "Tornado". Also note that it
21 >> worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd.
22 >>
23 >> To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after
24 >> that, what driver do I need?
25 >>
26 >
27 > Post this output:
28 >
29 > lspci
30 > dmesg | grep <something_relevant>
31 >
32 lscpi returns command not found, don't know what you mean by the dmesg
33 thing. dmesg is working properly, if that's what you want to know. Thanks!
34
35 Marcus

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... Damien Sticklen <ubiquitous1980@×××××.com>