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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Marcus Wanner wrote:
> On 10/27/2009 9:28 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
>> Am 28.10.2009 02:22, schrieb Marcus Wanner:
>>  
>>> On 10/27/2009 8:36 PM, James wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Marcus Wanner <marcusw <at> cox.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>      
>>>>> To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and
>>>>> after that, what driver do I need?
>>>>>             
>>>> emerge lshw
>>>> 'lshw <return>' may help
>>>>
>>>> hth,
>>>> James
>>>>         
>>> Except emerge won't work because internet won't work :(
>>>     
>>
>> You have Internet to send this mails to the list.
>> Get the source-packages by hand and copy them to your distdir
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Sebastian
>>   
> And where is that? (new to gentoo, sorry)
>
> Marcus
>
>

emerge -pf lshw .  That will give you links to where the files are, and
the names of them all as well.  Download them and copy them over to
/usr/portage/distfiles then emerge them.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)