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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Marcus Wanner wrote:
> 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
>
>

It's in the kernel tho.  This appears to be the one:

3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support

The help screen lists your card.  Just weird to me. 

Dale

:-)  :-)