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On Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:29 pm, Norman Bauer wrote:
> This is the first time I have installed Gentoo so I am not that sure =
> about how thisngs work with it. All in all the install was a success =
> from a Stage 1 tarball. The only problem I have encountered is eth0 is =
> not recognized.=20
While booting your new Gentoo install, one of the first things you see after
your bootloader screen will be a dump of detected devices, things like your
ide adapter, hard drives, sound card, vga card and NIC.... Even if the NIC
isnt working when fully booted, it should still appear there.
> I have a 3c59x builtin to the mobo. I compiled the kernel with that =
> specific driver built into it, and now it seems to not want to recognize =
> it. So now I am rebuilding the kernel with all 3Com drivers built in, =
> just in case I am wrong about the type of NIC.=20
Id probably suggest building them as modules as its easier to troubleshoot,
but your certainly going along the right lines...
As you managed to build from stage 1, obviously the card worked with the
LiveCD. If all else fails, boot back into the Live CD briefly [as long as
you dont chroot into your 'real' Gentoo install you wont break anything :) ]
and run the command 'lsmod', try to identify which module was loaded for your
NIC and make sure its been selected when you configured your kernel [from the
kernel config, select help on the driver and it should tell you the driver
filename].
> Could there be some other problem that would cause the driver to fail =
> that I am overlooking?
If all else fails, boot back into Gentoo and type 'dmesg', I would expect some
kind of output as to why the NIC driver failed to load.
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Mark
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