lspci returns nothing

[digitalhippie]

Hi!

I'm trying to switch from manually compiled kernels to genkernel, so that it's easier to move the hard drive between different hardware and still have gentoo boot and work. When I boot into the genkernel created kernel, my network cards don't work, don't even show up in /sys/classes/net, and lspci returns absolutely no output, even with -v. I don't know if it is a genkernel problem, because the same thing seems to happen without genkernel. I keep having to boot back in to the old kernel to make the machine run. Due to bad setups from the previous maintainer of the computer, I can't menuconfig the old kernel to see how it was set up. Anyone know what might cause lspci to see nothing?

Thanks!

[yardbird]

[digitalhippie]

sysfs and procfs are enabled, and mounted in fstab.

[digitalhippie]

Okay, instead of seeing how things were done, I took the config from the old kernel and used make oldconfig on it to use it on the new kernel. That made things work, but I don't know why. I still hope to switch to genkernel, but I'll be in hell if this machine goes down again.

For when I do decide to switch, does anyone know of a good "switching to genkernel" guide? (Yes, I know the normal genkernel guide, but it doesn't say if there are any issues in switching to it from the manual way.)

[NeddySeagoon]

digitalhippie,

That has to be a step backwards - moving to genkernel.

genkernel, left to its own devices does not provide support of all the hardware you might like, so you still need to use menuconfig.
Also, it makes everything modular, including network interfaces which are not always automatically loaded (even if your one is made) so you have to add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

I reccommend your learn to add modules to the running kernel. That way you can avoid the bloat and move your hdd around
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NeddySeagoon

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[digitalhippie]