On Sonntag, 6. April 2008, Les Henderson wrote: > I recently bought a laptop that has an onboard Realtek RTL8101E NIC. I > installed a system to dual boot with Windows Vista (which was > preinstalled, which I'd really like to be able to get away from > eventually) using the amd64 2007.0 liveDVD to do a networkless > install. The LiveDVD would load the r8169 module, but networking still > would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). I used the LiveDVD to emerge > the 2.6.19-r5 kernel. I installed the r8101 module from the RealTek > site, and while this finally would allow me to see eth0 under my own > environment (I could see it booting from the LiveDVD as well), > networking still would not work (dhcpcd eth0 times out). Looking > around the gentoo forums I've seen suggestions to use either the r8169 > or r8101 modules (depending on which post I read) using a kernel > > >2.6.19 and <2.6.22, that finally the module may work. I don't have a > > spare gentoo box on which I can grab this using emerge. Any > suggestions on how I can do this? My windows system has network > access, and I can mount my windows partition. Is there a better way to > get this NIC working?
install a recent kernel like 2.6.23 or 2.6.24 (just download the sources, unpack them in /usr/src, create the linux symlink). And use the in kernel r8169 drivers. Don't use 'vendor' drivers if you don't have to! > > Actually my ultimate goal is to get my Marvell TOPDOG wireless NIC > working, but it appears to me that I will need to get ndiswrapper and > perhaps wine for this to happen, neither of which are on the LiveDVD. > I'm hoping to get a network connection so I can get enough packages to > update the system enough to get this working and solve other hardware > issues resulting from me having a new laptop designed to work with > Vista. you might want to use the 2008-beta livecd for this - this way you don't have with a lot of very messy stuff (like expat). And wine is.. evil. Every release breaks something. If your stuff works at all. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
