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On Monday 11 February 2008, Simon Turner wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm having trouble installing gentoo on my old laptop... It says it |
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> can't find the interface eth0. I believe it has to do with the fact I |
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> have a pcmcia card with usb ports on which a usb2eth adapter is |
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> plugged. |
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> On another system I use on that laptop, it usually tries to |
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> recognize my net adapters first (doesn't find any), then recognizes |
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> pcmcia cards which enables support for the usb adapter, then in my |
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> rc.local I have to manually setup my ip address or tell to use dhcp. |
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> Hmmm, from inside the gentoo system, I found lsmod was empty (which |
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> could be normal as I wanted everything compiled in the kernel) and |
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> lspci was not found... |
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> I'm pretty confortable with everything exept these pcmcia cards... if |
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> anybody could give me a hand! |
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> Thanks, Simon |
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> Below are extracts from my current system (slax6rc6, livelinux based |
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> on slackware) |
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# lspci -v will show you more detail. So, should lshw, when you install it. |
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From the listed modules these seem to deal with your cardbus: |
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yenta_socket 24076 3 |
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rsrc_nonstatic 11776 1 yenta_socket |
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pcmcia_core 33684 4 3c589_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic |
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pcmcia 32172 1 3c589_cs |
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Build the relevant USB drivers for your machine into the kernel. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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