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Tmor
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 Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: [kind of solved] Cant find Network Card in the Kernel. |
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Lol,
This is kind of stupid, but I am installing Gentoo (2.6.11-R11) in a VMware machine. The network card that is found when booting the Install CD is the Pcnet/PCI II 79C970A (VMwares virtual card)
Well I finished installing the system and was doing my kernel config (make menuconfig) and I cant seem to locate this module. LoL
I compiled the AMD PCnet32 PCI into the kernel, but the hardware is not active.
Anyone know which card I need to install?
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RoadRunn
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: Cant find Network Card in the Kernel. |
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| Tmor wrote: | Lol,
This is kind of stupid, but I am installing Gentoo (2.6.11-R11) in a VMware machine. The network card that is found when booting the Install CD is the Pcnet/PCI II 79C970A (VMwares virtual card)
Well I finished installing the system and was doing my kernel config (make menuconfig) and I cant seem to locate this module. LoL
I compiled the AMD PCnet32 PCI into the kernel, but the hardware is not active.
Anyone know which card I need to install? |
If you compiled PCnet32 _IN_ the kernel then there will be no module. You can use to see if the driver found the ethernet device. If you compiled PCnet32 as a module then the module name will be pcnet32 |
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Tmor
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | If you compiled PCnet32 _IN_ the kernel then there will be no module. You can use
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dmesg|grep eth
to see if the driver found the ethernet device. If you compiled PCnet32 as a module then the module name will be pcnet32 |
Yep, nothing there. The hardware is not found
The boot CD returns:
| Quote: | | eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A |
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RoadRunn
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Tmor wrote: | | Quote: | If you compiled PCnet32 _IN_ the kernel then there will be no module. You can use
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dmesg|grep eth
to see if the driver found the ethernet device. If you compiled PCnet32 as a module then the module name will be pcnet32 |
Yep, nothing there. The hardware is not found
The boot CD returns:
| Quote: | | eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A |
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Ok, do you remember if you compiled pcnet32 support in the kernel <*> or as a module <M>? You might try and see if it gives you any errors about module not found. |
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Tmor
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Originally I compiled them into the kernel. I recompiled as modules. There were no errors making the modules. Doing a works fine.
So we are back to the problem, why didnt it take in the kernel?
Arrr... 
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Tmor wrote: | Originally I compiled them into the kernel. I recompiled as modules. There were no errors making the modules. Doing a works fine.
So we are back to the problem, why didnt it take in the kernel?
Arrr... |
If it is compiled as a module then you need to | Code: | | echo pcnet32 >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 |
(assuming you are using a 2.6 and not 2.4 based kernel)
Network modules have to be told to load. Thats why we have the modules.autoload.d files. I don't know why it didn't work compiled into the kernel, I have always used modules every place I can in the first place. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I did that. I really didnt want to do it that way but I guess it wont matter to much.
Thanks for the help.
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