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jbiggs77
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 Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:37 am Post subject: e1000 driver? |
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I'm trying to help my friend get his Gentoo box up and running. As with many others, the networking works fine under the LiveCD but not on initial boot. I went back under the LiveCD and did an lsmod to find it was using the e1000 driver.
I then emerged the e1000 driver but I am unable to find it as a module under the kernel config. How do I compile it into the kernel now?
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volrathxp
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 1:16 am Post subject: |
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Since you emerged the driver, just add the e1000 driver to the /etc/modules.autoload.d/<kernel_version> file.
For those drivers, when you merge them they don't go into your kernel config, you have to load them as modules...
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sebgarden
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| volrathxp wrote: | Since you emerged the driver, just add the e1000 driver to the /etc/modules.autoload.d/<kernel_version> file.
For those drivers, when you merge them they don't go into your kernel config, you have to load them as modules... |
Note that they are automatically loaded if you compiled and mounted devfs in the kernel, as it is advised in the Gentoo installation guide.
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volrathxp
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| sebgarden wrote: | | volrathxp wrote: | Since you emerged the driver, just add the e1000 driver to the /etc/modules.autoload.d/<kernel_version> file.
For those drivers, when you merge them they don't go into your kernel config, you have to load them as modules... |
Note that they are automatically loaded if you compiled and mounted devfs in the kernel, as it is advised in the Gentoo installation guide.
Regards,
Sébastien. |
Good point, thanks!! 
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scubed
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 2:03 am Post subject: New e1000 |
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I just got a new machine with a really new e1000 card. Specifically, lspci reports it as:
8086:1013 Intel Gigabit Ethernet
The Gentoo LiveCD that I have is a little old and it doesn't have a driver new enough to use the card. Does anyone here know if the newer version of the LiveCD has that particular driver on it? Is there a
.torrent to download it from?
If the driver is not there, how can I get the appropriate driver as a module so that I can
use it from, for example, a floppy disk so I can still install Gentoo?
Any advice would be appreciated.
I had a similar problem when trying to install Gentoo on my parent's computer.
They have a Toshiba PCX 1100 cable modem. They don't have an ethernet card,
so they use it over USB. Although the old version of the LiveCD correctly detected the exact type, it was unable to actually talk to the modem over USB. It worked fine over ethernet, of course. Does the newer version of the LiveCD have this cable modem driver?
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sebgarden
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 2:18 am Post subject: Re: New e1000 |
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| scubed wrote: | I just got a new machine with a really new e1000 card. Specifically, lspci reports it as:
8086:1013 Intel Gigabit Ethernet
The Gentoo LiveCD that I have is a little old and it doesn't have a driver new enough to use the card. Does anyone here know if the newer version of the LiveCD has that particular driver on it? Is there a
.torrent to download it from?
If the driver is not there, how can I get the appropriate driver as a module so that I can
use it from, for example, a floppy disk so I can still install Gentoo? |
If you take a look at the output of
| Code: | | emerge -pf -c net-misc/e1000 |
will give you the answer (etcat is part of the gentoolkit package: emerge gentoolkit). Actually, the e1000 driver is only working with the chipsets contained in the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt (for the version of the kernel). What are the exact reference of your card ? If those are not listed in the documentation, they are not yet supported.
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Sébastien. |
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