________________________________ From: Francisco Rivas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dell laptop install fail
Hi, What Dell Laptop do you have?. because I tried to install Gentoo amd64 in a E4300 and it fails, did not recognize the ethernet and some problems install packages. Its a Studio 1737. I found the old 2.6.19 kerneled Knoppix didnt pick up the hardware properly (eg didnt autoload tg3 for the ethernet, many unknown devices in dmesg), but 2.6.27 i'm using now seems fine so far. So make sure you use the latest kernel you can, and enable the Dell specific kernel options.
