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Stefan Pantiru
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 Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:50 am Post subject: can't install because there's no driver for my NIC |
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The driver form my NIC that I'm connecting to the internet with, is fealnx.ko. But this driver doesn't seems to be present in /lib/modules/.../drivers/net on the live cd, so I can't connect to the internet. And this very NIC is the only one I can do this with, because my ISP does a MAC check when connecting.
I DO have fealnx.ko (found it somewhere) but cannot copy it in /lib/modules/.../drivers/net because file-system is read-only...
Is there ANY way I can solve this problem?
Thank you for reading...
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flyinspirit001
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:39 am Post subject: |
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how do you mount /root partition on boot? the fact that's in readonly implies an error maybe @boot..what told u dmesg -a or var/log/messages?
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Stefan Pantiru
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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I have the feeling I haven't made myself clear...
I wanna install Gentoo.
I'm booting the Gentoo intallation live cd. I obviously don't know how a live cd works, nor how it mounts it's /root partition. But I do know that my NIC isn't working because the required driver is not present on the live cd. I DO have the driver but don't know what to do with it.
Given this, I can't even download a stage from the internet... this is the very first step: configuring the Internet connection... So I hit a wall before even starting the installation...
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Scan-C
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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copy the module you have to /mnt then do modprobe /mnt/fealnx.ko
don't know if this will work but it's worth a shot |
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saccory
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you sure you don't look for fealnx.o? Did you try a modprobe fealnx? |
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Stefan Pantiru
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | copy the module you have to /mnt then do modprobe /mnt/fealnx.ko
don't know if this will work but it's worth a shot |
Already tryed that.. it sais "cannot locate /mnt/fealnx.ko" like it thinks the whole this is the name of the driver, not a path.. anyway.. doesn't work
| Quote: | | Are you sure you don't look for fealnx.o? Did you try a modprobe fealnx? |
C'mon...
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Maedhros
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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If the driver is totally absent on this livecd, why not try a different livecd, like knoppix?
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Stefan Pantiru
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Already tryed that too, Maedhros.
It gives some erros when I . Lots of errors.
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GuidoJ
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Use 'insmod' instead of 'modprobe': | Code: | | insmod /path/to/your_module.o |
This should work if the module can be properly linked to the kernel at runtime. I doubt that that is possible though. |
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Stefan Pantiru
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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I'll try that in a few hours. Can't do it right now...
But if modprobe works at the runtime... why shouldn't insmod? What's the difference between them?
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GuidoJ
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Stefan Pantiru wrote: | | But if modprobe works at the runtime... why shouldn't insmod? What's the difference between them? |
Dunno. I've been trying to write a driver for a USB ADSL modem and I never copied the driver to /lib/modules/whatever. I could never load the module with modprobe, but loading it with insmod worked perfectly fine.
Note that I really doubt that you can use the module, because it's not built against the kernel on the Gentoo Live CD. AFAIK this is a must. For instance, if I do a kernel upgrade, I always have to re-emerge the nvidia-kernel and other separate kernel modules. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Stefan Pantiru wrote: | I'll try that in a few hours. Can't do it right now...
But if modprobe works at the runtime... why shouldn't insmod? What's the difference between them? |
The difference is modprobe can calculate dependencies, but it relies on a file to know module names. Insmod is the failsafe.
When you used knoppix, you say you had env-update errors. My guess is that this is not Knoppix related. Did you follow the alternate install guide? If/when you used mirrorselect, did you fix the /etc/make.conf so that it didn't have the line saying something about ipv6 servers?
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Stefan Pantiru
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Just for the record... I solved this by simply using another NIC to install... and afterwords installed my real NIC. Seemd most viable option.
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