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gtsquirrel
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 21 Nov 2002
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Location: San Jose, CA
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 Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 2:00 pm Post subject: 1.4_rc1 livecd and 3c59x driver |
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I'm trying to run the Gentoo 1.4_rc1 livecd on my desktop machine, but am having issues getting the network to come up properly. After I put the CD in, I'll boot into the Gentoo installer. Once I log in, if I check the dmesg logs, it shows the 3c59x driver messages: "Created by Donald ...." etc. However, once I attempt to run pci-setup and net-setup, I get the following messages:
| Code: | # pci-setup
Warning, etc/modules.conf not in sync with /lib/modules/...
# net-setup eth0
# ifconfig eth0
....bunch of stuff.... MAC Address: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF |
So I looked through the forum here and saw that you might have to deleted /etc/modules.conf, so I did.
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# rm -f /etc/modules.conf
# pci-setup
# net-setup eth0
# ifconfig eth0 |
Same problem...it's not actually "using" my 3c905b network card. Any suggestions? I'm kinda annoyed that some ethernet drivers are built monolithically and others modularly, but as I understand it, there is already a bug put into the system against that.
Thanks for any help! |
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BonezTheGoon
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Joined: 14 Jun 2002
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Location: Albuquerque, NM -- birthplace of Microsoft and Gentoo
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| Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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I have a 3C905B in my system and I too was surprised to find that the support for the 3c50x series of cards was compiled directly into the kernel on the liveCD. However all I did was run the ifconfig and route commands and then my card was working fine, network was up and running. What kind of card do you have precisely?
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gtsquirrel
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| Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 3:31 pm Post subject: 3C905B |
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| The 3C905B. It's worked under Redhat before...I honestly don't remember if I had to compile in "special" drivers, or if I was just able to use the old 3c59x driver...but the 3c59x should be able to handle it. |
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gtsquirrel
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Location: San Jose, CA
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| Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 6:26 pm Post subject: Found the fix |
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You literally don't do jack. That's the only way to make it work. When you start the install, login as root and then immediately type this in:
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# ifconfig eth0 up
# dhcpcd eth0
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Upon running 'ifconfig eth0' you should find yourself with an IP address. There seems to be some issue with running pci-setup and/or net-setup with the 3c905 series of cards....note for all future gentoo users out there.  Thanks for all your help, though! |
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BonezTheGoon
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Location: Albuquerque, NM -- birthplace of Microsoft and Gentoo
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| Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah that pretty much sums up how I did it. Although I did run pci-setup and it found nothing. Then I tried to modprobe the driver, when it complained it couldn't find it I nosed around the /lib area and determined there was no module. Then I assumed it must be compiled directly into the kernel. I just ran the ifconfig and route commands and away I went.
Glad you got yours working!!
Regards,
BonezTheGoon |
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