From: "Alessandro D.M. Semeria" <goloiat@libero.it>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation?
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:26:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041205202632.78aebe48@ulisse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102197154.10364.12.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org>
In my personal opinion is better to emerge pcmcia modules:
"emerge pcmcia-cs" (as is recommended on doc).
Best regards
A.S.
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 10:52:34 +1300
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 10:49 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> > you do not need to recompile the whole kernel, just the modules you
> > need.
> >
> > in your menuconfig go into "Bus Options" and choose pcmcia support,
> > with whatever options you need for your hardware.
> >
> > Then and only then will the right things appear under Device
> > drivers/Networking Support, there will be a section for pcmcia
> > drivers. Choose the NE2000 compatible one, and it will build
> > pcnet_cs (according to what you read under Help anyway)
>
> Sorry I didn't finish :-)
>
> after putting the right config options in place, as modules, exit
> menuconfig and execute the following
>
> make modules && make modules_install
>
> and for good measure:
>
> depmod -a
>
> it should then work without even a reboot.
>
> >
> > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:36 -0800, michael shiloh wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm installing Gentoo on an old laptop. After installing and
> > > booting, I find that I forgot to add pcnet_cs, which I need for my
> > > PCMCIA network card, so modprobe of that fails.
> > >
> > > Looking through the archives, I gather that this normally gets
> > > built with the kernel, but I don't want to rebuild the kernel. Is
> > > there a package I can emerge that will provide this?
> > >
> > > (I can get onto the net by booting from the live CD)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
> --
> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
>
>
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2004-12-04 21:49 ` [gentoo-user] How can I add pcnet_cs to my installation? Nick Rout
2004-12-04 21:52 ` Nick Rout
2004-12-05 19:26 ` Alessandro D.M. Semeria [this message]
2004-12-05 22:46 ` Nick Rout
2004-12-05 23:29 ` Alessandro D.M. Semeria
2004-12-06 0:05 ` Nick Rout
2004-12-06 4:42 ` michael shiloh
2004-12-06 8:42 ` Nick Rout
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