Like the man said, this is OT. Rather than continuing to discuss OT-for-Myth subject of the installing Gentoo on cranky hardware, point the man to the Gentoo forums.
http://forums.gentoo.org/ On Wednesday 09 March 2005 13:03, Michael Haan wrote: > Two thoughts: > > 1) Maybe the gentoo cd is identifying your card correctly, but > something else is preventing it from working (I've had this happen) - > try lsmod and see if there is a module loaded for your nic. > > 2) Try something like Kanotix or Knoppix. They're very good at > identifying hw. In fact, due to my NIC, I do my entire Gentoo install > by booting Kanotix and then using the Gentoo Alternate Install guide > (just Google) that and it all works fine. > > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:56:10 -0600, John Williams > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alright, > > After all the Gentoo love around here, I decided a few days ago to try > > gentoo. I've got an old HP celeron 550 and thought if it can optimize > > maybe I cam make something useful out of this box. Well after getting > > the first install up and booting, I was dead in the water because it > > wasn't recognizing my Network card (and heck if I know what that built > > in thing is). So then I decided to go with a level (some name like > > that) 3 install because it was faster and was supposed to be more like > > the live CD. Well, that didn't help becaus enow it is acsking what > > kernel modules to load including network card driver. All that to say > > I'm a relative newbee with Linux, but really want to learn more. I > > know I need more info about my hardware. Is there a hardware > > identification app out there that will tell you what you have in > > english? Something I could use to set up my system. > > > > OK so it's OT, but point in the right direction and I'll ask there. > > I'm stoked about the idea, but it's not gogin so well for me. > > > > BTW, I do like emerge. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
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