CDCEther 2.6.5-gentoo-r1

[hollerith]

The problem here is ignorance. Mine. I know I need CDCEther, I don't know how to get it within the handbook guidelines. I don't recognise any of these modules but I do know what is in lsmod for the LiveCD which detects and works fine (-X). Look, I've done a stage1. I followed the handbook except I chose reiserfs and hand-cranked .config accordingly. I thought I included all possible modules. I get gentoo linux, 'cept it says eth0 (using usb dhcpcd & cable modem) 'requires services'. Somethings obviously missing. There was no CDCEther checkbox in make --menuconfig but I ticked world+dog anyway. Again, I fear some of the modules I select will conflict for the same resources and I can't just put all lib/modules in autoload.d.

Then I used genkernel all - I didn't fdisk and start again, just chrooted in at the middle. I worry that its reusing the old (BAD?) .config. The LiveCD can find eth0 (with a little help from net-setup). The usb-hci stuff whinges also.

Question: Is CDCEther ok with 2.6.5 or do I need another source set?
How do I start X?
I get Forbidden 407 from the mirrors when trying to emerge genkernel (I've started from scratch again)? It worked before.

Sorry, it still been a learning experience and probably the whole point of having Linux in the first place (rather than the Windows next next finish install of most(all) other distros. Its frsutrating becuase I can see the performance improvement just on bootup! Just wish I had something to show for my many, many hours labour and any other distro is just spoilt for me now!

[ipower]

You must look at the module usbnet in kernel 2.6.x
Devices drivers ->USB support -->Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework
This driver supports several kinds of network links over USB,
Network adapter hardware (like those for 10/100 Ethernet) which
uses this driver framework.