From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30131 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2004 13:29:58 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Sep 2004 13:29:58 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C67wz-0002sx-PL for arch-gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:29:57 +0000 Received: (qmail 24337 invoked by uid 89); 11 Sep 2004 13:29:55 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-ppc-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31106 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2004 13:29:54 +0000 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:29:43 -0400 From: Michael George To: stuporglue Cc: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040911132943.GA23061@brutus.pewamo.office> References: <20040910111501.GA10545@brutus.pewamo.office> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with gentoo on bone-stock powermac X-Archives-Salt: 15cbe5af-8bbe-4684-ada6-c25fe62011b8 X-Archives-Hash: 66c041ad3ad21e29580e8f833823ea0a On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:15:53AM -0700, stuporglue wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:15:01 -0400, Michael George > wrote: > > I've spend the most of the past 4 evenings trying to get gentoo to install on > > my PowerMac. Bone stock, 800 Quicksilver. Nothing special, nothing strange. > > > > Reformatted the disk and followed the PPC install handbook. > > > > I built the defult picked ethernet drivers as modules and also the Sun GEM > > module (though I don't have gigabit eth). However, after going through all > > that, the system boots and it does not see that it has an ethernet card. > > > > Before this last complete install I had the drivers build into the kernel. > > Same results. > > > > But when booting from the 2004.1 CDROM, it sees the network with no problem. > > > > Is the 2.6 kernel on ppc kinda buggy/broken? Anyone have a clue what might be > > the problem? > > If you built them as modules, you need to load them for the device to > show up. You can auto load them at boot by editing > /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, or you can manually load them > afterwards.To see the modules you can load run "modprobe -l" as root. > Odds are there are a bunch of them, so you may want to try "modprobe > -l | grep ***" substituting sun, gem, eth, net, or other things that > may show up in a module name. When you have the module name, run > (again, as root) "modprobe gem" or whatever it is. You were right, I have to have the system automatically load the module for the ethernet driver. I guess I was used to SuSE and RHL where the right kernel modules "just work". I guess I could build the Sun GEM driver into the kernel and then there would be no problems, either. Before I had the wrong driver built in... Thanks! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list