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

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 27 Oct 2009, at 23:32, Marcus Wanner wrote:
> ...
> To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and  
> after that, what driver do I need?

Boot once again with the LiveCD, and the lspci and lshw commands  
should work from there.

You can also run `lsmod` which will show which driver modules are  
currently running in the LiveCD environment - the appropriate one is  
likely to be amongst them.

 From the LiveCD you can run these commands and redirect to a text  
file on a USB drive - i.e. `lspci -v > /mnt/foo/file.txt`.

Also from the LiveCD, you can chroot back into the system you've  
started building, and have network access. Follow the steps of the  
handbook just as you did before - the disk is already partitioned, so  
you can skip that bit; skip to mounting the disks at /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/ 
gentoo/boot &c, then do the mount where you bind /proc and execute the  
chroot command just like you did before. Then you can `emerge sys-apps/ 
pciutils` to install lspci on the hard-drive of the new system and you  
can add any other utilities you need (some of which might not be  
included on the liveCD).

I find this easier, because once the liveCD has loaded you can set the  
liveCD's root password, start ssh and you no longer need to do your  
back in crouching over the new PC which is invariably, during the  
duration of the build, located somewhere inconvenient, such as the  
floor or the top of the sever closet. You can then return to your  
comfy chair and continue your work over the network.

Stroller.