how do i do it?

corwinspyre · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 17

i need to get pcmcia_cs drivers to get my pcmcia network card to work but i cant get them because it doesnt work yet...so how do i do it???

snipingkills · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:00 am Post subject:

Use the Gentoo LiveCD and chroot into your existing linux partition and then emerge your pcmcia drivers.
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corwinspyre · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 17

but i dont have the drivers yet..or do they come with the stage tarball?

snipingkills · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 3:30 pm Post subject:

The drivers should come on the boot cd, because emerge doesnt start working until after you have bootstrapped the pc if I understand things correctly. Does your NIC work whenever you boot the liveCD?
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corwinspyre · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 17

no, it doesn't work when i boot the livecd

snipingkills · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 4:37 pm Post subject:

Are the modules getting loaded whenever you boot or can you load them by hand?
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corwinspyre · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 17

how do i see if they were loaded at boot?

snipingkills · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 4:52 pm Post subject:

You can type lsmod. This will list all modules that are loaded. You can cd into /lib/modules/kernel_name/ and dig through there and modprobe module_name and that should load the drivers for you.
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