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 1N3GEU-0005qJ-Qd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:39:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4900E07B6; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f224.google.com (mail-gx0-f224.google.com [209.85.217.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B5AE07B6 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so3157639gxk.6 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:39:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mpA4Fgd6akqBTvvLqQ95cs6IaasmR7OGk1aaZFaAOgo=; b=NQeXNTyBv2BspbwfLsaXf1b8wUOfLlgP0nMihhRtmSf1bGqNDDsUEvf9yMRdwYwuIp oCBHDYahzIVML9n8yZZ0iLtQ7AJdt7Y2bPy7U43hzGmAy6nK/MJ2EFbC7R49ffQsAUtg audYs/MN9iOGKH5fjdBTCLGfmNFG7A925IQmM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eeR3qx/2s+4STGXFGzixLZ9n6VK+v3n7Vj24pqz8pRxs+PahHXIRcyou30j5c7XFCG QPg8zYKvO5Ckb33hIhoOaNr2KPtBS32ZNHjkb0GRTcxz2CD7Sejdp0jZI2XD1yQiBAYK 5RsBtEz3ZJcR99IuOVE7uDhGANlln37mZ93Dg= Received: by 10.90.166.2 with SMTP id o2mr7217090age.93.1256765945383; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-95-111.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm586317yxd.44.2009.10.28.14.39.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE8B9F4.6000205@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:39:00 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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> <4AE863B5.2000603@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4AE863B5.2000603@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 12b31d2c-7621-43a1-af62-89ea4bea35e7 X-Archives-Hash: ec72d4ed8286d45de954fad6cd69d4f5 Marcus Wanner wrote: > 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 > > Now I'm confused. I did a search here as well and it returned nothing matching that driver. This is a first for me. Has anyone else ever searched for a driver when you have the exact name and not get a match when the driver is actually there? I did a manual search and the driver is there. Glad you got the network working tho. Dale :-) :-)