Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - success

2006-05-29 Thread Kenneth Hopping
Richard Fish wrote: Ok, when you go to configure your kernel, go under Device Drivers-Network device support-Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit). Select the option 3COM cards, and then the 3c590/3c900 series... with an 'M'. Assuming that you already configured and installed a kernel, so that

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - success

2006-05-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 00:19 -0700, Kenneth Hopping wrote: I also learned to always keep the last working kernel as a backup when you reconfigure. And you can add another piece of self-taught knowledge to your toolkit :) This is one that I do without thinking now. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - success

2006-05-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Monday 29 May 2006 09:19 skrev Kenneth Hopping: I selected the 3COM options like you suggested and recompiled the kernel. Unfortunately, during reboot I got invalid compressed format (err=1). I tried make clean to flush everything and compiled again but it still wouldn't boot. My drastic

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - success

2006-05-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/29/06, Kenneth Hopping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I finally got eth0 working, but it was a struggle. Glad you got it working. I selected the 3COM options like you suggested and recompiled the kernel. Unfortunately, during reboot I got

[gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - followup

2006-05-28 Thread Kenneth Hopping
Richard Fish wrote: On 5/27/06, Kenneth Hopping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem appears to be that /sys/class/net/eth0 does not exist. This is a pseudo-filesystem like proc that I cannot manipulate. Is there some configuration file that needs initialization or a package that I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - followup

2006-05-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/28/06, Kenneth Hopping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: What do lspci and lsmod report? 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74) Ok, when you go to configure your kernel, go under Device Drivers-Network device support-Ethernet (10 or

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - followup

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/28/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/28/06, Kenneth Hopping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: What do lspci and lsmod report? 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74) Ok, when you go to configure your kernel, go under

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist - followup

2006-05-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Sunday 28 May 2006 20:28 skrev Daniel da Veiga: Maybe he already have the driver compiled as a module but its not loading it?! If that was the case it would have shown up when he ran: # find /lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r7/kernel -type f -iname '*.ko' Look in his previous mail. It didn't. This

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/27/06, Kenneth Hopping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem appears to be that /sys/class/net/eth0 does not exist. This is a pseudo-filesystem like proc that I cannot manipulate. Is there some configuration file that needs initialization or a package that I need to install? No, you just

[gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon
Hi Folks, Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU, and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an emulated network card to the OS it's hosting. Works fine for the install CD.

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/2/06, Tom Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU, and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an emulated network card to the

RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread sHadoW MaN
From: Tom Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:27:48 + Hi Folks, Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU, and have just completed

RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon
@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:27:48 + Hi Folks, Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU, and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant