Nic is there and then agian .. it's not

[InfiniteEcho]

I have a downloaded ISO from one of the gentoo mirrors and when I go to install it it goes through and tries to find the hardware that I have. It seems to find everything but my network card. I've tried 5 different cards, all of which are rather popular three of which worked in Debian.

when I do a lspci the card(s) that I have in show up, but the audo dectect says that I don't have any network adapters... any ideas as to why this is happening?

[NeddySeagoon]

InfiniteEcho,

It sounds like the kernel modules for to NICs are not getting loaded. What does ifconfig say?

If your NIC is missing from ifconfig, try modprobing the module, providing you know the required module name.
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NeddySeagoon

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[InfiniteEcho]

When I do an ifconfig I only get the local loopback.
How do I check to see if they are getting loaded and what mod's should I probe for?

[forbjok]

Try:

# lsmod
# ifconfig eth0

And see what comes out. lsmod should list the modules loaded. common nic modules are 8139too (realtek 8139 - many cheap nics. some Accton cards among others), e100 (nearly all intel 10/100 cards), eepro100 (same cards as previous, but older driver) and 3c905 (3Com 905B and similar), but there are others as well.

If lsmod doesn't show any nic modules, try loading an appropriate one with:

# modprobe <modulename>

If you have the names of the modules you used with the cards in Debian, try them, as they're probably the same. If not, try googling on your card and you'll probably find what modules they use.

[InfiniteEcho]

I went to #gentoo on freenode and was able to find what mod had my nic drivers.

#modprobe tulip
#net-setup eth0
#ifconfig

After loading the correct moduel I was all set.
Thanks for all of your help suggestions.