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

[Marcus Wanner <marcusw@cox.net>]

On 10/27/2009 09:42 PM, Dale wrote:
> 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:
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>>>>         
>>>>> Marcus Wanner <marcusw <at> cox.net> writes:
>>>>>
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>>>>>           
>>>>>> 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
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>>     
>
> 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
>
> :-)  :-) 
>
>   
Thanks for that tip, it will come in handy.

Though, I think I will just try running the commands on the livecd like 
Dale and Stroller suggested. Again, thanks anyway!

Marcus