2009/4/17 Adam Carter <[email protected]>: > > > ________________________________ > 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.
Most of the problems are related to ACPI. For old kernel, "acpi=off" or "pci=bios" kernel boot option may solve them.
