Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo test

[AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

Philippe Namias wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday i installed Gentoo Linux on my home workstation.
> So i notice few bug :
> 
> First GRUB didn't work on my hardware i have a MSI 694 Pro D motherboard with
> two DMA channel and two UDMA channle on a in board promise UDMA 100.
> 
> So GRUB is unbale to find my disk on the promise UDMA 100 but find it on the
> normal DMA channel. (I think this is due to BIOS as GRUB try to find disk
> info from the BIOS and the Promise UDMA 100 Bios is apart from the computer
> BIOS.)
> 
> Then i run Gentoo with the sotck kernel provided and try at the command line :
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet restart i got error message (line 26 and 50) i didn't
> look at the script but the initialisation of network pass.
> 
> Next trouble i have is one that really push my head on a wall :
> 
> So i boot Gentoo with the stock kernel provided , then i do a pkmerge of
> linux-source-...tbz2 and pppd-...-.tbz2, i load the modules for my network
> card and for ppp as i use ppp for connecting to the internet.
> Then i got a wierd behaviour from pppd telling that ppp generic is not loaded
> but when i do lsmod i got it.
> 
> So i decided to recompile the kernel , i selected all that feet my needs and
> reboot. The new kernel boot without problem but PPP is still not loaded but i
> choose it to be load directly in kernel (not a modules), this as never worked
> all the other options worked but PPP never passe.
> 
> So i reinstall gentoo and recompile my kernel in the chroot mode.
> So all goes well , i reboot and now hourra i see PPP generic ...
> The i do a pkmerge of ppp-...-.tbz2 run pppd and he tell me that PPP is not
> present in my kernel?
> 
> So i see two possibillity to this bug or i do something bad but ireally don't
> know what or the ppp stuff in this kernel is broken or the ppp-...-.tbz2 is
> broken
> 
> Any one have an idea ?

Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documenattion/Changes.
There are a few aliases in modules.conf required in order to get pppd
working.
Remember to copy modules.conf to /etc/modules/[kernelversion] because
this file gets
copied to /etc/modules.conf on boot.
This behaviour will change in the next release.

achim~

> 
> PS : i also found that my memory was bad during installing gentoo i changed
> it on now my workstation work without rebooting for no reasons :)
> 
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