Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... [resolved]
On 10/28/2009 8:09 PM, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) and that Kernel driver in use: 3c59x. Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for similar cards (one of which had [Typhoon] in the name). However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything works great. Thanks for all your help. Marcus Now I'm confused. I did a search here as well and it returned nothing matching that driver. This is a first for me. Has anyone else ever searched for a driver when you have the exact name and not get a match when the driver is actually there? I did a manual search and the driver is there. Glad you got the network working tho. Dale :-) :-) Yeah, I guess it's because you have to download that particular driver separately? Marcus It's in the kernel tho. This appears to be the one: 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) Vortex/Boomerang support The help screen lists your card. Just weird to me. Dale :-) :-) Oh, now it makes sense that my card worked with that driver. Come to think of it, I didn't even know that each menuconfig option had its own help message...that could have come in handy. Marcus
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... [resolved]
On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: To read your PCI connected devices you need: lspci -v HTH. That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver it is using for what device. If it works while booted on the Live CD, then that driver is most likely what you need. Take the name of the driver, then search for it in menuconfig. You hit the / key to search. Its like the ? key without hitting shift. It should show you exactly where the driver is located so you can go enable it. Then you just recompile the kernel and copy it to /boot. This is what the output should look like: 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31) Subsystem: ARCHTEK TELECOM Corp Device 0008 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 9800 [size=256] Memory at df002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 8810 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 Kernel driver in use: dmfe The last line is the key. If I were searching for that driver, I would search for dmfe and enable it as built in or a module. If that command doesn't show the driver, then you may need to start with some of the other commands to see what you can test to get it working. Dale :-) :-) I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) and that Kernel driver in use: 3c59x. Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for similar cards (one of which had [Typhoon] in the name). However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything works great. Thanks for all your help. By the way, I have never had such great technical support before. I am really amazed that within 12 hours, I had about 3 different ways of fixing this, and was able to have it up and running within 45 minutes of checking my email this morning. Wonderful! Marcus
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... [resolved]
Marcus Wanner wrote: On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: To read your PCI connected devices you need: lspci -v HTH. That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver it is using for what device. If it works while booted on the Live CD, then that driver is most likely what you need. Take the name of the driver, then search for it in menuconfig. You hit the / key to search. Its like the ? key without hitting shift. It should show you exactly where the driver is located so you can go enable it. Then you just recompile the kernel and copy it to /boot. This is what the output should look like: 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31) Subsystem: ARCHTEK TELECOM Corp Device 0008 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 9800 [size=256] Memory at df002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 8810 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 Kernel driver in use: dmfe The last line is the key. If I were searching for that driver, I would search for dmfe and enable it as built in or a module. If that command doesn't show the driver, then you may need to start with some of the other commands to see what you can test to get it working. Dale :-) :-) I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) and that Kernel driver in use: 3c59x. Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for similar cards (one of which had [Typhoon] in the name). However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything works great. Thanks for all your help. By the way, I have never had such great technical support before. I am really amazed that within 12 hours, I had about 3 different ways of fixing this, and was able to have it up and running within 45 minutes of checking my email this morning. Wonderful! Marcus Now I'm confused. I did a search here as well and it returned nothing matching that driver. This is a first for me. Has anyone else ever searched for a driver when you have the exact name and not get a match when the driver is actually there? I did a manual search and the driver is there. Glad you got the network working tho. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... [resolved]
On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: To read your PCI connected devices you need: lspci -v HTH. That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver it is using for what device. If it works while booted on the Live CD, then that driver is most likely what you need. Take the name of the driver, then search for it in menuconfig. You hit the / key to search. Its like the ? key without hitting shift. It should show you exactly where the driver is located so you can go enable it. Then you just recompile the kernel and copy it to /boot. This is what the output should look like: 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31) Subsystem: ARCHTEK TELECOM Corp Device 0008 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 9800 [size=256] Memory at df002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 8810 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 Kernel driver in use: dmfe The last line is the key. If I were searching for that driver, I would search for dmfe and enable it as built in or a module. If that command doesn't show the driver, then you may need to start with some of the other commands to see what you can test to get it working. Dale :-) :-) I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) and that Kernel driver in use: 3c59x. Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for similar cards (one of which had [Typhoon] in the name). However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything works great. Thanks for all your help. By the way, I have never had such great technical support before. I am really amazed that within 12 hours, I had about 3 different ways of fixing this, and was able to have it up and running within 45 minutes of checking my email this morning. Wonderful! Marcus Now I'm confused. I did a search here as well and it returned nothing matching that driver. This is a first for me. Has anyone else ever searched for a driver when you have the exact name and not get a match when the driver is actually there? I did a manual search and the driver is there. Glad you got the network working tho. Dale :-) :-) Yeah, I guess it's because you have to download that particular driver separately? Marcus
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers... [resolved]
Marcus Wanner wrote: On 10/28/2009 5:39 PM, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: On 10/28/2009 04:01 AM, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: To read your PCI connected devices you need: lspci -v HTH. That is the key command in my opinion. That will tell you what driver it is using for what device. If it works while booted on the Live CD, then that driver is most likely what you need. Take the name of the driver, then search for it in menuconfig. You hit the / key to search. Its like the ? key without hitting shift. It should show you exactly where the driver is located so you can go enable it. Then you just recompile the kernel and copy it to /boot. This is what the output should look like: 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31) Subsystem: ARCHTEK TELECOM Corp Device 0008 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 9800 [size=256] Memory at df002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 8810 [disabled] [size=256K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 Kernel driver in use: dmfe The last line is the key. If I were searching for that driver, I would search for dmfe and enable it as built in or a module. If that command doesn't show the driver, then you may need to start with some of the other commands to see what you can test to get it working. Dale :-) :-) I booted up the livecd and ran lspci -v, it worked great. I got similar output to that above, and found out that I am using a 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) and that Kernel driver in use: 3c59x. Great! Only problem was that when I went to look for that driver in menuconfig, all I found were two other drivers for similar cards (one of which had [Typhoon] in the name). However, I enabled those drivers, recompiled, rebooted, and everything works great. Thanks for all your help. By the way, I have never had such great technical support before. I am really amazed that within 12 hours, I had about 3 different ways of fixing this, and was able to have it up and running within 45 minutes of checking my email this morning. Wonderful! Marcus Now I'm confused. I did a search here as well and it returned nothing matching that driver. This is a first for me. Has anyone else ever searched for a driver when you have the exact name and not get a match when the driver is actually there? I did a manual search and the driver is there. Glad you got the network working tho. Dale :-) :-) Yeah, I guess it's because you have to download that particular driver separately? Marcus It's in the kernel tho. This appears to be the one: 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) Vortex/Boomerang support The help screen lists your card. Just weird to me. Dale :-) :-)
