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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Tuesday 27 October 2009 23:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote:

> 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?

Typical tools used to probe devices and read the details of them are:

lshw
hwconf

To read your PCI connected devices you need:

lspci -v


If you have the correct drivers for your NIC then it will show up when you 
run:

ifconfig -a

although it may not have an IP address unless dhcpcd is running.

If these commands are not on your current LiveCD, burn a Knoppix CD/DVD or 
SystemRescueCd or equivalent.  They have all these commands available and if 
your NIC is working they would have most likely loaded the necessary module:

lsmod

will show the loaded modules.

Finally, dmesg | grep eth0 (if e.g. eth0 shows up in ifconfig) will show you 
what you card is recognised as:

$ dmesg | grep -i eth0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x40100000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:02:a5:b6:a1:8f
e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex

If as you say the Minimal CD works, then I recommend that you boot with that 
and run the above commands making notes what is the NIC module the CD kernel 
has loaded.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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