badgers l33t
Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 680 Location: Madison, WI
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject: General Disarray |
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I downloaded and built the bcm4400.o module for my NIC.
When I boot gentoo it reads that eth0 failed
when I do insmod bcm4400.o and then dhcpcd eth0 I get my network up and running.
the bcm4400.o is in a temp directory right now because that is where I had placed the source.
1) where do I copy the file to for the system to see it?
2) how do I tell the system to use this by default?
3)this may be more important. During boot I get a warning that devfs is not in the kernel(something to this effect I am not sure what the warning is and right now the system is emerging kde(1.5 hrs so far) so I can't tell you exactly.
Where is this option? I did follow the instructions and I swear I selected everything I was instructed to. PS I am using ReiserFS for my / partion.
hda1 ext2 boot
hda2 xfs /
hda3 swap
redhat 9 was on here before but I erased the root to build gentoo. I had gentoo mkreiserfs
sorry to be such a bother but I set this machine up to try and learn linux. I am not very sure how to proceed.
PS
ABit KD7-S(SATA is disabled in bios because I don't have an SATA drive)
XP 2500 barton core
Nvidia GF4 MX 420 video card.
HDA is a maxtor 30 gig
HDC is a Mitsumi CD-RW
any help is appreciated.
thank you for your time and have a good day _________________ Abit KD7-S
Athlon XP2500+
166mHz FSB
512 Meg PC3200 Ram running at 166mHz
LiteOn DVD dual Layer burner(hdc)
2.6.17 Suspend2 kernel with no scsi support |
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