Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:34:56 + (UTC), James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: if I bridge it with the laptop's internal network card. However, the 3Com network card doesn't seem to be recognised under my installation of Gentoo. OK, shot in the dark: /usr/sbin/update-pciids updates list of pci device numbers My experience is sometimes this data base gets updated and sometimes, it need a manual push. I'm not certain it affects your hardware, but, it's a good command to try. others just for grins: update-ca-certificates update-etc update-usbids update-env update-pciids Or USE flag +network-cron which installs a CRON task to run thoses utils on a regular basis (once a month or sth). hth, James -- Xavier Parizet http://gentooist.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised
On 13/12/2010, at 1:34pm, James wrote: Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: if I bridge it with the laptop's internal network card. However, the 3Com network card doesn't seem to be recognised under my installation of Gentoo. OK, shot in the dark: /usr/sbin/update-pciids updates list of pci device numbers My experience is sometimes this data base gets updated and sometimes, it need a manual push. I'm not certain it affects your hardware, but, it's a good command to try. others just for grins: update-ca-certificates update-etc update-usbids update-env update-pciids I'll try it now. I'm not terribly optimistic, though, as this is such an old card, so is sure to be in the PCI IDs database. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3Com PCMCIA network card not recognised
On 13/12/2010, at 10:51pm, Stroller wrote: ... OK, shot in the dark: /usr/sbin/update-pciids updates list of pci device numbers ... I'll try it now. I'm not terribly optimistic, though, as this is such an old card, so is sure to be in the PCI IDs database. Nope, no difference. Stroller.
