Good idea as an alternative. However, I burned a Knoppix-based distro called Kanotix-64 and it found and configured my NIC out of the box. If it can do it, why can't gentoo?
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:13:38 +0100 (MET), Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Michael Haan wrote: > > > If I can't find a solution which let's me use the onboard NIC (and I > > can't believe there isn't one), I could throw the 3c900 back in. One > > thing I didn't like was that it became eth1 because the onboard NIC > > continued to show-up, even after disabling it in the BIOS. Still, I'm > > hoping someone has a solution which will let me use the onboard NIC. > > Anyone? > > I have no idea how to correctly setup the nvidia nic (I don't want > anything to do with nvidia because of their closed driver policy, period), > but if you have the drivers compiled as modules, you can change the order > in which they load to get the eth0/1 how you want them. I.e. if the > onboard nic is loaded first it will get eth0 assigned... > > Best regards > > Peter K > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
