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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:43:02
Message-Id: 4AE7A1A0.10202@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... by Marcus Wanner
1 Marcus Wanner wrote:
2 > On 10/27/2009 9:28 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
3 >> Am 28.10.2009 02:22, schrieb Marcus Wanner:
4 >>
5 >>> On 10/27/2009 8:36 PM, James wrote:
6 >>>
7 >>>> Marcus Wanner <marcusw <at> cox.net> writes:
8 >>>>
9 >>>>
10 >>>>
11 >>>>
12 >>>>> To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and
13 >>>>> after that, what driver do I need?
14 >>>>>
15 >>>> emerge lshw
16 >>>> 'lshw <return>' may help
17 >>>>
18 >>>> hth,
19 >>>> James
20 >>>>
21 >>> Except emerge won't work because internet won't work :(
22 >>>
23 >>
24 >> You have Internet to send this mails to the list.
25 >> Get the source-packages by hand and copy them to your distdir
26 >>
27 >> Greetings
28 >>
29 >> Sebastian
30 >>
31 > And where is that? (new to gentoo, sorry)
32 >
33 > Marcus
34 >
35 >
36
37 emerge -pf lshw . That will give you links to where the files are, and
38 the names of them all as well. Download them and copy them over to
39 /usr/portage/distfiles then emerge them.
40
41 Hope that helps.
42
43 Dale
44
45 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>