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 1N3Xi1-0000nu-RR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:18:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CCBAE0893; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246D5E0893 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20091029161842.LEDK6358.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:18:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([68.226.67.252]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id ygJi1c00G5Sa0uU02gJitU; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:18:42 -0400 X-VR-Score: -100.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=rF5s2ZGxEKQA:10 a=LfpBMjTyhnxHcgjLlN4A:9 a=VFbKgHIBqnoo_J9-qO3G-FEACAwA:4 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4AE9C062.4000909@cox.net> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:18:42 -0400 From: Marcus Wanner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) 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> <4AE8B9F4.6000205@gmail.com> <4AE8DA18.4080109@cox.net> <4AE8DD46.2050407@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE8DD46.2050407@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a26db7f3-2a57-4481-aa99-eb2e3245e2ac X-Archives-Hash: cd6b8d682a174a35ee0a731b6125b31b 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