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d0t1q
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 Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: [ON T42]2005.0 Install,Minimal Device Support Ie:NIC[SOLVED] |
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First, thanks to everyone involved with gentoo(yes even you). I've learned more thus far with gentoo than with any of my previous 40 GUI installs of redhat, fedora, knoppix & suse.
NOTE, this was a 2005.0 install on an IBM thinkpad T42
I'm sure this is a simple question. I've walked through the installation three times thinking I've missed something.
Question: At what point during the install does gentoo(or myself) determine which devices to load on boot? If a device doesnt appear to be functioning, is this where tools such as lspci, modprobe etc should be utilized? If so and how please?
Statement 1) When intially booting the 2005.0 Live Disk, the integrated Intel 10/100/1000 Ethernet isnt detected. I've come to this conclusion because when I type ifconfig, there is nothing but the loopback interface.
| Quote: | | My HACK: I plugged in a linksys USB network adapter and rebooted the live disk. The interface configured via dhcp resulting in A+ network connectivity. |
Statement 2) At the reboot portion of the installation guide, gentoo came up great but neither the USB or the Integrated LAN worked. When compiling the Kernel, I placed an * beside Intel 10/100/1000.
| Quote: | | My attempted hack: I assumed I could reboot with the live disk, grab an IP and emerge cold & hotplug, however I received dns resution errors on kernel.org. (Probably my isp, wasnt my host or my network, I could ping other wan addresses) I plan to attempt emerging these packages again and hopefully the network connection is up. |
Statement 3) When I woke up, I kicked off the download of the packages disk thinking that I could continue the install while at work. I burned the disk and here I am.
Statement 4) I decided to install X from the packages disk but when trying to load X (startx), I receive an error stating that no mouse is found.
| Quote: | | My attemped hack: Added the following to xorg.conf: |
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection |
This did not help in starting X but I feel my problem is much more vast than an X configuration. Any suggestions?
Thx again
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forgotten1
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I think you are looking for:
http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html
There are quite a few successful installations documented. |
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