Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 01:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just followed the (excellent, easily understandable) gentoo
> installation handbook up to chapter 10, where it says to reboot. I did
> so, but I had the same problem as the user here:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/networking-eth0-
> does-not-exist-gentoo-349330/
> 
> As suggested in there, I have recompiled the kernel with the tulip
> drivers (everything under the tulip subtree in make menuconfig), copied
> it to /boot, and booted it, but it still gives the same message. I have
> verified that I am booting the newly compiled kernel with the tulip
> drivers, but it still doesn't work.
> 
> Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the
> link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name
> is, besides the fact that the name includes "Tornado". Also note that it
> worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd.
> 
> To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after
> that, what driver do I need?

Post this output:

lspci
dmesg | grep <something_relevant>

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