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StringCheesian
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 Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 3:00 am Post subject: Is there a driver name reference? |
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It took me a great deal of online research to figure out that my network card needs the natsemi driver, is there an easier way?
Now I've got Gentoo installed in a VirtualPC and I need to know what the right driver is for the DEC 21104a Ethernet controller it emulates.
Is there a table or chart or something, online or in a man page that I can look at? Or is there some program that comes in the GRP that can autodetect and tell me which driver to use? |
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Vanquirius
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StringCheesian
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| ManuChao wrote: | | Is it tulip.o? |
I dunno. I wish I knew how to find out... Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime" I want to learn.
| ManuChao wrote: | | http://www.f7.ems.okayama-u.ac.jp/~fujino/linuxalpha001.html |
I don't know any Japanese.
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meowsqueak
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| There are FCC numbers or whatever they are called - look on the network card itself. Once you have that, you can consult an online database to find out who the manufacturer is, and possibly even the model. Then you need to find out the chipset (easy enough to do if you can get hold of one of the windows drivers or manufacturer data) and then somehow match the chipset with a linux driver. Fun. |
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StringCheesian
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| meowsqueak wrote: | | There are FCC numbers or whatever they are called - look on the network card itself. Once you have that, you can consult an online database to find out who the manufacturer is, and possibly even the model. Then you need to find out the chipset (easy enough to do if you can get hold of one of the windows drivers or manufacturer data) and then somehow match the chipset with a linux driver. Fun. |
 There's no easier way than that?!?! But Mandrake, RadHat, and Windows all use the right network drivers automatically, why can't Gentoo?
Besides, I can't look at the card because it's a virtual machine (VirtualPC). All I know is it's emulating a DEC 21104a network card.
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meowsqueak
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Well, I was only suggesting that as a manual 'last resort'. I usually do a cat /proc/pci, search thru the output for something that seems familiar and to do with a network card, and then using a combination of google and looking at the Linux source I figure out what chipset and therefore what driver to use. I'm sure there are easier ways.
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| Code: | Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16). |
That's an 8139 so I look in the Linux source and it just happens to be there (8139too.o). I got lucky with that one. |
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StringCheesian
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Ok, how can I get at the Linux source? Maybe "ls *dec*" would do the trick.
You know how xf86config gives you a list of video cards by name - that way you don't have to know what the cooresponding driver is? Well, there should be something like that for sound and network too. Why isn't there? |
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meowsqueak
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| Well, there probably is - I just don't know what it's called... |
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funkmankey
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just boot a livecd and let it do its hotplug mumbo-gumbo, then do an lsmod and see what you get...
alternatively, learn about hotplug.
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StringCheesian
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Yep, it's tulip. Booting the livecd and doing an lsmod was a great idea.
ManuChao, meowsqueak, funkmankey, thank you for taking the time to help me - I appreciate it.
I've got an issue with hotplugging, but I should start a new thread for it. |
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RedBeard0531
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I suggest you look into lspci. it a handy tool, and doesnt require the kernel be compilesd with support for the devices it names.
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