Toshiba Tecra 8000 docking station.

[manji]

Hi,

I've installed Gentoo using the Universal CD - stage3.

When I first installed it, I wasn't at home, so it was a networless instalation. The only pcmcia card plugged in was a wireless one , but I don't wanna set that one up just now.

What I want is for the dockingstation built-in network card to function with Gentoo.
It doesn't show up in ifconf, but it show up at cat /proc/pci.

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# cat /proc/pci

Bus 0, device 6, function 0
Ethernet Controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 5)
IRQ 11
Master Capable Latency=64 Min Gnt=8 Max Lat=56
Prefetchable 32bit memory at 0xdefff000 [0xdeffffff]
Non-Prefetchable 32bit memory at 0xfff600000 [0xff6fffff]

How can I make it work?

Thanks.

[nobspangle]

have you compiled either the e100 module or the eepro100 either works fine. Then load the module with insmod. If you haven't compiled the module just reload your old kernel config add in the network modules then run

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make modules modules_install

Make sure you add the modules to your modules.autoload.d for the kernel version you are running

[manji]

So what I have to do is emerge the module I want, add it to the modules.autoload.d and run modules-update?

Or do I have to compile the kernel all over again? If so, could you give me the comands I should run?

Thanks

[nobspangle]

You need to compile the module

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cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

I'm on a 2.6 kernel if you have 2.4 the options will be slightly different
Device Drivers
Networking Support
Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
put an M next to both the EtherExpressPro/ 100 drivers
Exit all the way out and save your kernel configuration

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make modules modules_install
insmod eepro100

If your network now works the

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echo eepro100 >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x

replace x with your kernel version.
If it doesn't work then try

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insmod e100
echo e100 >> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x