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oregonshoegazer
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 May 2002
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 Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:46 pm Post subject: Which driver for Dell Inspiron 8100 with 2.6.8-r7 ? |
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I'm having trouble getting my network card working with the gentoo-dev-sources kernel (2.6.8-r7). Some of the posts on this forum have said to use "forcedeth", but it doesn't work for me. I was hoping someone might be able to help.
Here's my .config (useful sections only)
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# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
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CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
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# Tulip family network device support
#
# CONFIG_NET_TULIP is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCNET32 is not set
# CONFIG_AMD8111_ETH is not set
# CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE is not set
# CONFIG_B44 is not set
CONFIG_FORCEDETH=y
# CONFIG_DGRS is not set
# CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set
# CONFIG_E100 is not set
# CONFIG_FEALNX is not set
# CONFIG_NATSEMI is not set
# CONFIG_NE2K_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_8139CP is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO=m
CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO=y
# CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_8129 is not set
# CONFIG_8139_OLD_RX_RESET is not set
# CONFIG_SIS900 is not set
# CONFIG_EPIC100 is not set
# CONFIG_SUNDANCE is not set
# CONFIG_TLAN is not set
# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE is not set
# CONFIG_VIA_VELOCITY is not set
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and from /etc/conf.d/net:
| Code: | iface_eth0="dhcp"
#dhcpcd_eth0="..."
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Any ideas? Thanks.
orsg |
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kenthepostman
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Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Posts: 245
Location: Stanford, CA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| A little more info would be useful. What network card do you have? What problems are you having exactly? Can you load the modules for your network card? |
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nobspangle
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Joined: 23 Mar 2004
Posts: 1318
Location: Manchester, UK
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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it's unlikely to be forcedeth, that's usually for nforce chips (Athlon) only. If you've got an Intel CPU then the nic is most likely an intel pro100 or some sort of realtek.
Check the contents of /proc/pci or load up the live CD and see which modules it chooses. |
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loisl
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Joined: 18 Apr 2004
Posts: 167
Location: Egelsbach
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| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
my Inspiron boots now 2.6.8-r10, the issues I had dissapeared on r8 without any changes on my side 
To the network interface:
lspci says on my box:
| Code: | | 0000:02:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556 Hurricane CardBus [Cyclone] (rev 10) |
So I have compiled the 3c59x driver hardwired into the kernel (why load it as a module whan I have to load it anyway?)
In the kernel configuration I've checked out in Device Drivers / Networking Support / Network Device Support / Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
| Code: | [*] Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
[*] 3COM cards
<*> 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support |
To become the driver as eth0 I have placed a file in /etc/modules.d which containes the line
Hope this helps.
Loisl |
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