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

[Damien Sticklen <ubiquitous1980@gmail.com>]

Marcus Wanner wrote:
> 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
>
Marcus,

Are you using the lspci command as root?

Thanks,

Damien