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

[Marcus Wanner <marcusw@cox.net>]

On 10/28/2009 8:09 PM, Dale wrote:
> Marcus Wanner wrote:
>   
>> On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote:
>>     
>>> Marcus Wanner wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>
> :-)  :-)
>   
Oh, now it makes sense that my card worked with that driver. Come to 
think of it, I didn't even know that each menuconfig option had its own 
help message...that could have come in handy.

Marcus