From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3813 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2004 03:50:32 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 24 Oct 2004 03:50:32 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CLZOq-0007Us-IP for arch-gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:50:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 4640 invoked by uid 89); 24 Oct 2004 03:50:31 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-laptop-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Received: (qmail 20475 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2004 03:50:31 +0000 From: "Spencer McGuire" To: , Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:50:49 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <20041023100955.77833148045@bel.hittite.isp.9tel.net> Thread-Index: AcS455iTk2Ki325QRKO1HSAE84vgEQAlNQQg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-Id: X-ELNK-Trace: 8532f8ef6c7e2b21045161294c36f9de2632aad6bd4c0af8fc0131ad9549911ec2d4c7c231d8891b350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: RE: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop X-Archives-Salt: c6ac9fff-462a-41ee-9982-9f0466e52e13 X-Archives-Hash: cfb551fb26c65effcc339a41cd310f46 Maybe you should have found out what hardware was in your computer = before linux install, it is always helpful to have a full list of hardware when dealing with a laptop, and knowing which modules/ drivers you need for everything, I have had my troubles with linux but just stuck it through = till the end, when everything is working great. BTW, I have a tablet pc, you thought a weekend was bad, try a month to get everything working. Spencer -----Original Message----- From: Henri Magnin [mailto:henri.magnin@fnac.net]=20 Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:07 AM To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Trying Gentoo linux on a new Asus M6 laptop Hi Thanks for so quick and kind response. I also had an e-mail from another person in the mailing list, who suggested me to really reboot with my new kernel rather than simply CHROOTing and checking what was available under /dev... Indeed, the /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 appeared and was operational when I really rebooted Gentoo from my hard disk. But I now face other difficulties. I do not have any eth0 available, = even the cable link one (I also have WiFi, but expected to configure this later). Just=20 'lo' appears in ifconfig... I tried 'genkernel all' (rather than 'make menuconfig / make / make=20 modules_install'), but eth0 is not recognized anymore; although the 'universal install' CD does (I really wonder how its kernel is built = ;-)... I think I will give up and move to a Suze with 2.6.x kernel since I did = not expect to spend a full week having an operational Linux on my machine. - I think I will backup what I've done with Gentoo and come back to it = later on... - Anyway, thanks again for your help. Regards Henri Le Samedi 23 Octobre 2004 04:22, vous avez =E9crit : > I'm not familiar with an ASUS laptop, but I know that a Sony VAIO has > a firewire bus for the cdrom. You might want to check to see if your > cdrom is firewire or IDE. When you use your gentoo boot CD, try lsmod > and see if it is loading any special firewire drivers. This might can > help you find out. > > -Michael > > > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:19:08 +0200, Jaroslav Sladek > > wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:29:03 +0200, Henri Magnin = wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I recently purchased an Asus M6 (Centrino 1.6GHz), and did not = want to > > > bother anymore with the Windoze Family stuff. > > > > > > I wanted to install a modular Linux, which I could master and = upgrade > > > as I like. > > > I earlier tried muliple other distributions (Aurox, Mandrake), but = I > > > did no longer expect to have any "straightforward" or "magic" = install > > > which was too tricky to update in future. > > > > > > I downloaded Gentoo 2004.2, started from stage3 (in a first = trial), and > > > compiled a 2.6.7 kernel. > > > > > > All was Ok, I even compiled X11 and kde and ati_drivers, to try = employ > > > at best my Radeon 9700 graphics card. > > > > > > My concern is about the CD-Rom on my own (very new) linux install. > > > When booting from the install boot CD-Rom, I have a = /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 > > > device. > > > > > > But in the /dev of my hard-disk install, there is no such entry. = So > > > when I chroot to it, I can no more see the CD-Rom device. > > > > You mean when you chroot to your harddisk after booting from CD? > > That's not a big deal, since gentoo uses devfs (or udev) which gets > > initialized during boot up sequence and actually creates all needed > > devices in /dev of your root filesystem. > > > > But if I misunderstood you and you're not seeing you CD rom device = in > > /dev of your harddisk AFTER you booted your new kernel, then you > > probably forget something in kernel config. Most likely, you should > > have option "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support" checked under Device > > drivers->IDE/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support menu. > > > > Jaroslav Sladek > > > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list