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

RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread sHadoW MaN
Hi This is certainly because you haven't loaded your network card driver at boot time. Be sure you have entered your driver name ( I am not sure maybe it's 8029too) at file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. You can use nano text editor to edit the file... Cheers cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK

RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon
Thanks, much appreciated. Turns out it was ne2k-pci. Added that to the file you mentioned and it was all good. Thanks, Tom On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:56 -0500, sHadoW MaN wrote: > Hi > > This is certainly because you haven't loaded your network card driver at > boot time. Be sure you have entered

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

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 (1

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,

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 - success

2006-05-28 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 /usr

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

2006-05-28 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 You

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

2006-05-28 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 drasti

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 "inva