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...
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 23:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote: Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name is, besides the fact that the name includes Tornado. Also note that it worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd. To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Typical tools used to probe devices and read the details of them are: lshw hwconf To read your PCI connected devices you need: lspci -v If you have the correct drivers for your NIC then it will show up when you run: ifconfig -a although it may not have an IP address unless dhcpcd is running. If these commands are not on your current LiveCD, burn a Knoppix CD/DVD or SystemRescueCd or equivalent. They have all these commands available and if your NIC is working they would have most likely loaded the necessary module: lsmod will show the loaded modules. Finally, dmesg | grep eth0 (if e.g. eth0 shows up in ifconfig) will show you what you card is recognised as: $ dmesg | grep -i eth0 e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x4010, irq 11, MAC addr 00:02:a5:b6:a1:8f e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex If as you say the Minimal CD works, then I recommend that you boot with that and run the above commands making notes what is the NIC module the CD kernel has loaded. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
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 :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
Marcus Wanner wrote: On 10/27/2009 7:38 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2009 01:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote: Hi! I just followed the (excellent, easily understandable) gentoo installation handbook up to chapter 10, where it says to reboot. I did so, but I had the same problem as the user here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/networking-eth0- does-not-exist-gentoo-349330/ As suggested in there, I have recompiled the kernel with the tulip drivers (everything under the tulip subtree in make menuconfig), copied it to /boot, and booted it, but it still gives the same message. I have verified that I am booting the newly compiled kernel with the tulip drivers, but it still doesn't work. Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name is, besides the fact that the name includes Tornado. Also note that it worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd. To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Post this output: lspci dmesg | grep something_relevant lscpi returns command not found, don't know what you mean by the dmesg thing. dmesg is working properly, if that's what you want to know. Thanks! Marcus Marcus, Are you using the lspci command as root? Thanks, Damien
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
On 27 Oct 2009, at 23:32, Marcus Wanner wrote: ... To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Boot once again with the LiveCD, and the lspci and lshw commands should work from there. You can also run `lsmod` which will show which driver modules are currently running in the LiveCD environment - the appropriate one is likely to be amongst them. From the LiveCD you can run these commands and redirect to a text file on a USB drive - i.e. `lspci -v /mnt/foo/file.txt`. Also from the LiveCD, you can chroot back into the system you've started building, and have network access. Follow the steps of the handbook just as you did before - the disk is already partitioned, so you can skip that bit; skip to mounting the disks at /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/ gentoo/boot c, then do the mount where you bind /proc and execute the chroot command just like you did before. Then you can `emerge sys-apps/ pciutils` to install lspci on the hard-drive of the new system and you can add any other utilities you need (some of which might not be included on the liveCD). I find this easier, because once the liveCD has loaded you can set the liveCD's root password, start ssh and you no longer need to do your back in crouching over the new PC which is invariably, during the duration of the build, located somewhere inconvenient, such as the floor or the top of the sever closet. You can then return to your comfy chair and continue your work over the network. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
On 10/28/2009 06:38 AM, Damien Sticklen wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: lscpi returns command not found Are you using the lspci command as root? Yes, I haven't set up a non-root user yet. 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...
Am Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009 00:32:07 schrieb Marcus Wanner: To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Boot from a LiveCD, like Knoppix or GRML, run lspci -vv from there and post the output. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
Am Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009 18:56:33 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: Am Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009 00:32:07 schrieb Marcus Wanner: To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Boot from a LiveCD, like Knoppix or GRML, run lspci -vv from there and post the output. Oops, you already got that hint. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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 :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 01:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote: Hi! I just followed the (excellent, easily understandable) gentoo installation handbook up to chapter 10, where it says to reboot. I did so, but I had the same problem as the user here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/networking-eth0- does-not-exist-gentoo-349330/ As suggested in there, I have recompiled the kernel with the tulip drivers (everything under the tulip subtree in make menuconfig), copied it to /boot, and booted it, but it still gives the same message. I have verified that I am booting the newly compiled kernel with the tulip drivers, but it still doesn't work. Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name is, besides the fact that the name includes Tornado. Also note that it worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd. To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Post this output: lspci dmesg | grep something_relevant -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card not working, tried tulip drivers...
On 10/27/2009 7:38 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2009 01:32:07 Marcus Wanner wrote: Hi! I just followed the (excellent, easily understandable) gentoo installation handbook up to chapter 10, where it says to reboot. I did so, but I had the same problem as the user here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/networking-eth0- does-not-exist-gentoo-349330/ As suggested in there, I have recompiled the kernel with the tulip drivers (everything under the tulip subtree in make menuconfig), copied it to /boot, and booted it, but it still gives the same message. I have verified that I am booting the newly compiled kernel with the tulip drivers, but it still doesn't work. Note that I do not have the same ethernet card as is mentioned in the link above, and have not been able to find out exactly what it's name is, besides the fact that the name includes Tornado. Also note that it worked fine in the Gentoo minimal installation cd. To sum it up: How do I figure out what the name of my card is, and after that, what driver do I need? Post this output: lspci dmesg | grep something_relevant lscpi returns command not found, don't know what you mean by the dmesg thing. dmesg is working properly, if that's what you want to know. Thanks! Marcus
