Can't Emerge Kernel... and modprobe isn't working

Joe · Guest

Hi all, I've been trying to install Gentoo tonight and I'm learning pretty quickly (I love the command prompt challange of it). There are 2 stumbling blocks I've come across though.....

1) the first time I did a modprobe after boot everything was fine, but now when I boot and run "modprobe 3c59x" I get

"/lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r7/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o: init_module : no such device"

2) after setting up ifconfig i get

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:DA:8F:61:2A
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::50:ba8f:617a/10 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1498792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1284980 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1984 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:485691215 (463.1 Mb) TX bytes:123951388 (118.2 Mb)
Interrupt:11

3) and finally when I go to compile the kernel with the gentoo-source kernel

"Calculating dependencies !!! Couldn't find match for sys-kernel/gentoo-sources ;aborting"

Any suggestions would be good, I've already looked around the forum and a few guides but couldn't find many answers.... thanks

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject:

Did you emerge rsync first?

james · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 5:32 pm Post subject:

Check /etc/conf.d/net and see if it has the right values for your IP address and the gateway (down at the bottom).

I assume that you do since you have gotten to the emerge sources part, right?

Do this emerge gentoo-suorces and that should get it.

HTH,

J
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Joe · Guest

"Did you emerge rsync first?"

It's my understanding from the manual that I don't need to run emerge rsync as I'm using a stage 3 tarball.... but even so I tried and couldn't connect to rsync even after fixing the address and putting in my http proxy address. (HTTP_PROXY: http://autoproxy.uws.edu.au/proxy.pac:3128)

james, I've got the right IP and GW but still can't emerge sources.... damn... thanks anyways....

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 3:13 am Post subject:

If you have a stage 3 tarball, you have gentoo-sources already loaded in /usr/src/linux.

Joe · Guest

thanks delta, you're right... I wasn't thinking, I simply have to do a make menuconfig and go from there... thanks...

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 3:32 am Post subject:

By the way, if you're going from stage 3, an emerge rsync --clean shouldn't hurt anything...