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

[Marcus Wanner <marcusw@cox.net>]

On 10/27/2009 7:38 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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>
>   
lscpi returns command not found, don't know what you mean by the dmesg 
thing. dmesg is working properly, if that's what you want to know. Thanks!

Marcus