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ralphj
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 Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 10:33 am Post subject: NIC supported by Linux but not Gentoo? |
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I've got a NIC with a Myson 803 chipset. Kernel 2.4.18 supports this by including the fealnx-driver. I've been using this card with Debian and RedHat for more than a year now.
But when I boot from the Gentoo-ix86-1.2 CD-ROM (burned from the 16MB ISO-image) this modules is nowhere te be found.
Has anyone gotten this card to work with Gentoo? And why did the Gentoo-people chose not to include this module? |
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leej
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: NIC supported by Linux but not Gentoo? |
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| ralphj wrote: | I've got a NIC with a Myson 803 chipset. Kernel 2.4.18 supports this by including the fealnx-driver. I've been using this card with Debian and RedHat for more than a year now.
But when I boot from the Gentoo-ix86-1.2 CD-ROM (burned from the 16MB ISO-image) this modules is nowhere te be found.
Has anyone gotten this card to work with Gentoo? And why did the Gentoo-people chose not to include this module? |
Did you enable:
Network device support --->
Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support
Or is that not compatible with your NIC? |
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ralphj
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| Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: NIC supported by Linux but not Gentoo? |
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| leej wrote: | | ralphj wrote: | I've got a NIC with a Myson 803 chipset. Kernel 2.4.18 supports this by including the fealnx-driver. I've been using this card with Debian and RedHat for more than a year now.
But when I boot from the Gentoo-ix86-1.2 CD-ROM (burned from the 16MB ISO-image) this modules is nowhere te be found.
Has anyone gotten this card to work with Gentoo? And why did the Gentoo-people chose not to include this module? |
Did you enable:
Network device support --->
Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support
Or is that not compatible with your NIC? |
I'm not trying to build a kernel - I've just booted from the small install CD (burnt from the 16MB ISO-file). There are no sources, there's only a precompiled kernel with some modules (and the fealnx driver isn't there).
Somebody told me I could build the module myself in Debian. I did that, but when I boot the Gentoo installcd, mount the debianpartition and copy the module to Gentoo's /lib/modules-etc. modprobe keeps complaining it "can't find module". Even if I specify the hole path to it, it still says it can't find it (module-version-numbering is turned on in that debian-kernelsetup).
What am I doing wrong? |
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