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by xevra
Fri Mar 28, 2025 10:14 pm
Forum: Unsupported Software
Topic: Printing and Scanning with Canon Pixma/Pixus Series
Replies: 502
Views: 2800667

Hello,

I have recently purchased a Canon Pixma MG2500 printer, and have attempted to follow the instructions here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Printing#Locally_attached_printer_.28USB.29 to set it up.

I am still relatively new, and don't understand the kernel stuff super well, but I am using a ...
by xevra
Fri Mar 07, 2025 3:21 pm
Forum: Desktop Environments
Topic: xfce fonts reset to tiny with every reboot
Replies: 2
Views: 7915

Not sure if you're still interested in a reply, but I had a similar issue, and solved it using advice from here: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7734

It turned out to be an issue with my dpi (dots per inch).

I was able to fix it using the advice from ToZ:
How about Settings Manager ...
by xevra
Sun Mar 02, 2025 11:28 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

xevra,

You can have wpa-supplicant and NetworkManager installed but you must only start NetworkManager. It will use wpa-supplicant.

Your wired network needs the 6.13 kernel but you have 6.12.
There is no need for a reinstall.

You can add the 6.13 kernel to your install and choose which one to ...
by xevra
Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:26 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

wpa-supplicant is now configured (although the ip keeps jumping around because I suspect NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant are fighting for control of the device, but I will remedy this is in the next installation by just installing wpa_supplicant on its own).

I have successfully installed neofetch ...
by xevra
Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:55 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

The yellow screen was fixed by installing x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
by xevra
Sun Mar 02, 2025 4:24 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

Okay, I have more things to try, but I was able to boot the stable kernel from a web install using dracut.

Still no ethernet, and I haven't actually configured wpa-supplicant yet, and my whole screen is yellow, but dhcpcd does find my wifi card.

Have some errands to run, but we have achieved ...
by xevra
Sun Mar 02, 2025 12:50 am
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

I have managed to encounter the same kernel panic while trying to web install.

I have about a dozen other things I want to try now, but that will be tomorrow.

We have wifi and sshd. No more sneakernet. That is progress.
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:01 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

[...] nor Ubuntu, [..] have boot media with 6.13 yet.
Yes, the newest Ubuntu 24.10 has 6.11 ... but ... Ubuntu do a lot of patches for its kernel ... so there is a chance (but I dont know) that the needed ethernet module is in there ... just try it ;-)

My friends, we have internet.

We still don ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 10:00 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

NeddySeagoon wrote:xevra,

There is a list of devices at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
That's a negative. There is a /usr/src/linux/Documentation folder, but there is no admin-guide within that folder.
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:54 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

NeddySeagoon,

Thanks for the explanation.

I can confirm that option is set.

Thank you,
Xevra
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:43 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

NeddySeagoon wrote:xevra,

Does /boot/amd-uc.img exist ?
Yes, it is 145Kb, according to ls.
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:40 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

However I like to point out your SHOULD NOT get same kernel panic. At least the line that said VFS: Cannot open root device "UUID=4643c03f-299a-4e28-b975-5c95b56244f0" or unknown-block(0,0) would have changed to VFS: Cannot open root device "PARTUUID=6f7921b9-6801-4905-9a33-506de5659ba4" or unknown ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:32 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

xevra,

That's good, almost
echo 'Loading Linux 6.13.4-gentoo-dist ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-6.13.4-gentoo-dist root=UUID=4643c03f-299a-4e28-b975-5c95b56244f0 ro net.ifnames=0
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/amd-uc.img /boot/initramfs-6.13.4-gentoo-dist.img

I didn't see /boot ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 9:08 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288



I suppose you do have initrd support enabled in the kernel?

NeddySeagoon,

I had "ugrd' enabled in the USE flags, so the initramfs should be enabled in the kernel. The distribution kernel requires that you use one or the other.

On my other machine, I successfully booted Gentoo using a ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 8:28 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288


Going back to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8853829.html#8853829 and that patch, it appeared in 6.13.0.
If you have RTL8125D you need 6.13.0 or newer, or to apply the patch to an older kernel, if you can.
That tells that the latest Gentoo Live media will not help.
Empirically, no, the ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 8:06 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

Thanks all,

I still have more things to try, but while I'm doing those things, if I ls -l /boot , the output is:
total 69124
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10948155 Feb 28 08:54 System.map-6.13.4-gentoo-dist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10948155 Feb 28 08:16 System.map-6.13.4-gentoo-dist.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 4:41 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

Were you able to see boot messages? there should be some lines refer to "nvme" (I am not sure about the exact string).

Another thing you can try is to change the kernel command line from "uuid=XXXX..." to "partuuid=XXXX..." where XXXX is your /dev/nvme0n1p3's PARTUUID,

It is ok to use UUID=XXXX ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 3:04 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

xevra,

Thanks for confirmation.

Now we know it is on /dev/nvme0n1p3. So new question, Do your kernel support nvme? is it configured static (builtin) or module (load by initrd)

I'm using a distribution kernel, and I'm not sure how to verify that nvme is supported.

There doesn't seem to be a sys ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 2:56 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

xevra,

maybe read this:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Confusion_with_root%3DPARTUUID%3D_and_root%3DUUID%3D
to understand why you have a kernel panic when NOT having an initramfs AND using UUID (instead PARTUUID).

Pietinger,

Thank you for pointing me at this. This is ...
by xevra
Sat Mar 01, 2025 2:28 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

xevra,

Does your initrd exist at all?
In it listed in grub?

You may have several initrds, Its common now for the CPU microcode to be in its own initrd.
They should be listed in grub in the same boot stanza.

NeddySeagoon,

When I run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg The output I get is ...
by xevra
Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:58 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

xevra,

VFS: Cannot open root device "UUID=4643c03f-299a-4e28-b975-5c95b56244f0" or unknown-block(0,0)
The last part, unknown-block(0,0), tells that the kernel cannot see the hardware for any of your block devices. Probably because you need to load modules.

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS ...
by xevra
Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:56 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

xevra,

can you review the UUID=4643c03f-299a-4e28-b975-5c95b56244f0?

is the value 4643c03f-299a-4e28-b975-5c95b56244f0 belong to UUID or PARTUUID?

This is the UUID (not PARTUUID) for /dev/nvme0n1p3, the root partition of my SSD.

It is a 4 Tb Crucial SSD.

When I run fdisk /dev/nvme0n1 , and ...
by xevra
Fri Feb 28, 2025 1:11 am
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

Okay, so the good news is that tar-ing and un-tar-ing /var/db/repos/gentoo and /var/cache/distfiles from a functional build with 6.13.4 is much faster and less of a headache than wget-ing the files and copying them over one at a time as emerges fail.

More good news is that the 6.13.4 kernel ...
by xevra
Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:03 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

Clarification: It only returns that warning while chrooted.

Edit: Further clarification: and no, it still doesn't find my ethernet devices.
by xevra
Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:02 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: [Solved] Installing Ethernet Drivers on Installation Media
Replies: 98
Views: 199288

Running
rc-service dhcpcd start
returns a warning:
No permission to apply cgroup settings .

This appears to be because way back when I installed the stage 3 tarball, I didn't use the "--xattrs='*.*'" flag.

I think I just ran

tar [letters] stage3*.tar.xz


I'm not sure if this is connected ...