[gentoo-dev] Installation woes: Gentoo and a Notebook

[gentoo-dev] Installation woes: Gentoo and a Notebook

[Oliver Hofmann]

'lo everyone!


Been trying to install Gentoo on a notebook (Sharp Actius 250) lately
and ran into some problems.

The regular PCMCIA CDRom is not supported by Linux, at least according
to www.linux-notebook.org ; so far my own attempts to find a suitable
module only confirm the problem.

Booting with it is just fine, though; so I figured getting the network
to run might be another way to install Gentoo. Unfortunately, no driver
for a Realtek network card seems to be included (ie, rtl8139). Are there
any alternatives I could give a try?

In addition, would it make sense to include very basic network support
within the rescue image so that an install-by-ftp becomes an option?


Thanks a lot in advance,

	Oliver

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Installation woes: Gentoo and a Notebook

[jano]

> 'lo everyone!

Yo!

>
>
> Unfortunately, no driver
> for a Realtek network card seems to be included (ie, rtl8139). Are
> there any alternatives I could give a try?

Look for 8139too module for the 8139 based network cards/pcmcia-thingies. 
THere is another one (the non "too" version), but I think "they" stopped
working on it and you won't find it in the 2.4.x series *shrug*.
Good luck,
jano

Re: [gentoo-dev] Installation woes: Gentoo and a Notebook

[Bart Verwilst]

use ne2k-pci ...
That driver works for my realtek and winbond NIC's..

On Sunday 30 September 2001 22:47, you wrote:
||  > 'lo everyone!
||
||  Yo!
||
||  > Unfortunately, no driver
||  > for a Realtek network card seems to be included (ie, rtl8139). Are
||  > there any alternatives I could give a try?
||
||  Look for 8139too module for the 8139 based network cards/pcmcia-thingies.
||  THere is another one (the non "too" version), but I think "they" stopped
||  working on it and you won't find it in the 2.4.x series *shrug*.
||  Good luck,
||  jano



Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium