Best way to move a gentoo install from intel->AMD

[jgaynor]

Hi!

I've got a gentoo 1.4 installation that I'd like to upgrade the hardware on. The machine hosts a couple gigs of gallery albums and a CMS system that would be painful to back up so I tried to simply move the hard drive from one box to the other. It booted without issue and threw some 'driver not compiled in' errors but basic functionality was there.

My problem is with the embedded NIC - gentoo didn't recognize it. So I tried another, then another and another and another. I went through linksys cards, realtek cards, sis cards, no luck. Is the problem that the new architecture is simply too vastly different for the existing gentoo installation to find new PCI cards on? The old box was an intel chipset (probably an 810) and the new mobo is an ECS K7S5A (sis 735 chipset I believe).

Thanks for any insight from an eager n00b.
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[NeddySeagoon]

jgaynor,

How well this migration will work depends on exactly what the Intel Processor was and what the AMD is.

If it boots, PCI detection should be OK.
run /sbin/lspci to get the details. you may need to emerge pcitools to that the program.

Post the line (or lines) related to Ethrnet.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[jgaynor]

Thanks Neddy - Ill emerge pcitools and have the line posted tomorrow. You rock.
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[jgaynor]

OK Got lspci (part of the pciutils package) and pulled outputs from both my old and new rigs . . .

Original box:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0

New Box:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1)

If it makes any difference, the old machine was a Gig celeron and the new on is an AthlonXP box. As you can see it SEEs the SiS900 ethernet controller, it just wont come up with a modprobe . Any ideas?
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