From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3AUJ-0005NQ-IS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:31:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67C44E0752; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37EA8E0752 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091028153102.YWVQ1164.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:31:02 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([24.252.133.128]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id yFX11c00U2mNiMC02FX1M0; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:31:01 -0400 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=rF5s2ZGxEKQA:10 a=PV6d-fGz7r7KRxso1KYA:9 a=BFtdUnA4IrP6YXRGctRLufd8urAA:4 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4AE863B5.2000603@cox.net> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:31:01 -0400 From: Marcus Wanner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... [resolved] References: <4AE782F7.9010409@cox.net> <200910280741.15269.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4AE7FA4F.5090906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE7FA4F.5090906@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7bbf3eda-fe4d-4f85-8b39-fecb78191cf8 X-Archives-Hash: d3730fe9cf16008839e493d751077c6e On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > >> To read your PCI connected devices you need: >> >> lspci -v >> >> HTH. >> >> > > That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver > it is using for what device. If it works while booted on the Live CD, > then that driver is most likely what you need. Take the name of the > driver, then search for it in menuconfig. You hit the "/" key to > search. Its like the ? key without hitting shift. It should show you > exactly where the driver is located so you can go enable it. Then you > just recompile the kernel and copy it to /boot. > > This is what the output should look like: > > 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 > MBit (rev 31) > Subsystem: ARCHTEK TELECOM Corp Device 0008 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 > I/O ports at 9800 [size=256] > Memory at df002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] > [virtual] Expansion ROM at 88100000 [disabled] [size=256K] > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 > Kernel driver in use: dmfe > > > The last line is the key. If I were searching for that driver, I would > search for dmfe and enable it as built in or a module. > > If that command doesn't show the driver, then you may need to start with > some of the other commands to see what you can test to get it working. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a "3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)" and that "Kernel driver in use: 3c59x". Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for similar cards (one of which had "[Typhoon]" in the name). However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything works great. Thanks for all your help. By the way, I have never had such great technical support before. I am really amazed that within 12 hours, I had about 3 different ways of fixing this, and was able to have it up and running within 45 minutes of checking my email this morning. Wonderful! Marcus