SMC Etherpower II : Device not recognized after recompiling

RexAtHighSpeed · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Charlotte, NC

I just finished my first install of Gentoo but my eth0 refuses to come up. it says no such device on bootup. I went back and compiled the SMC Etherpower II driver into the kernel but it still does the same thing.

I rebboted off the 1.4 cd and ran net-setup eth0. "lsmod" lists osst and cpqarray as only modules loaded (neither sounds like SMC) ethernet works fine off cd - why can't I get it to recognize the device?

My card is: SMC 9432tx (Etherpower II)

rac · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 8:37 pm Post subject:

Any possibility that /boot was not mounted when you copied the new kernel onto it?
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RexAtHighSpeed · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Charlotte, NC

You are talking to a true n00b. How can I be sure? I was not running off the cd when I recompiled. When I ls -l the /boot directory it says that bzImage is Nov 8 21:34 which was last night when I recompiled. Did I do something wrong?

rac · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 8:55 pm Post subject:

One thing that is a bit confusing for people not accustomed to Unix filesystems is that mount points are directories. You can tell which filesystems are mounted by typing "mount". If /boot is not listed, then it's unmounted, but you can still copy things to the /boot directory, which is on the / (root) filesystem.

I would try this:

RexAtHighSpeed · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Charlotte, NC

I get no errors at bootup!! You da man!

Now I'm off to browse the forums to find out the least painless way to install KDE

Thanks very much (I've searched for hours looking for an answer!)