davicom 9012

madskillz09022 · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 2

hi im trying to install gentoo for my webserver (mandrake and red hat just dont cut it) but i cant get my ethernet card to work. its a davicom 9012. can sum1 help me with this?
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cyrillic · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:14 am Post subject:

Does your NIC work when you boot from the LiveCD ?

If your NIC is a Davicom DM9102 it should be supported by the "dmfe" module.

madskillz09022 · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 2

no it doesnt work with the live cd, its that adapter. it works in mandrake so i dunno whats wrong. i dont like mandrake though and i wanna get it to work in gentoo.
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gentoo rocks. and thanx to shallax i can use the best linux dist. on my xbox too

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:45 am Post subject:

Try booting from a KNOPPIX CD.
If this works and your NIC is supported, you can install Gentoo (search the forums for installing Gentoo from a KNOPPIX CD).

rxKaffee · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 4 Location: TX

I also have this card. However, it works for me under the gentoo livecd 2004.3. lsmod shows it to be using tulip and dmfe. on my gentoo box that I just installed from that livecd, I cannot get it to work though. I've got coldplug setup, and it decides it only needs tulip as a driver. I've also tried modprobing dmfe(along with tulip), no go. I've tried dmfe by its self(without tulip), no go.

I'm using kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r9, same kernel number as livecd, different release(2.6.9-gentoo-r1).

After one or both of these modules are loaded and I try to dhcpcd, I get the error "eth0: Tx timeout - resetting" written multiple times to dmesg.

Any leads greatly appreciated, rxKaffee

rxKaffee · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 4 Location: TX

turns out the problem is acpi management of the pci bus. pci=noacpi in grub fixed the problem