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

[Marcus Wanner <marcusw@cox.net>]

On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote:
> 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
>
> :-)  :-) 
>   
Yeah, I guess it's because you have to download that particular driver 
separately?

Marcus