On Monday 20 February 2006 13:44, krgn wrote: > Something else made me suspicous after I finished working > within the liveCD environment was that the via_rhine module was always > together with another module called 'mii' which I don*t know yet. That > is another difference to the liveCD setup. Maybe you know what it means?
What's your dmesg telling you? Here's mine - via_rhine installed with minimal 2005.0.iso if that's any help: <snip> via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1e800, 00:50:2c:05:34:ca, IRQ 11. eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1 Link 45e1. ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 <snip> lsmod indicates no mii module installed on this machine. Bogo -- Sent via KMail 1.9.1, & o/s Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list