Network Issues On Old Acer Card Help!

Sallad_Tosser

Hey all, I just fianlly got Gentoo installed on my secondary system I cant seem to find a proper driver for the network card in it. Its a Acer Network card and I know it works in Linux because I had it working with Mandrake. Any help will be greatly appreaciated.

Sallad_Tosser
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garo · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 2:09 pm Post subject:

boot in mandrake and give the command "lsmod" to see with modules are loaded (the driver for your card is probably compiled as module). Compile a new kernel in gentoo and make sure you have the driver for your card in it.

If this doesn't work try the following command (in gentoo):

Sallad_Tosser · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:08 am Post subject:

Okay well I figured out what network card I have (or what Gentoo specifies it as)

Eathernet Controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co . , LTD. RTL-8029(AS) (rev 0).

Now I tried to find it in my menuconfig but had no luck.

Any suggestions?

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Sallad_Tosser · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:05 pm Post subject:

Well just so ya all know the network driver for it was the NE2000 and clone driver in the menuconfig.

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garo · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject:

if you compile your kernel, you have the file ".config" after the command "make config","make xconfig" or "make menuconfig",
could you post the rules between:
"# Networking options" and "# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"

check if you have the following rules in your ".config" :