I have an AMD64 3400+ processor on an ASUS K8V Motherboard and I am trying to install Gentoo Linux. I have been following the setup to the "T" and can't get it to detect my network card nor can I get it to modprobe it. I am using the motherboards built in NIC which is a 3CON 3C940 Gbit Lan Controller which when looking into the /lib/kernel/version/kernel/drivers/net directory all I can find is the 3C59x. I first tried your livecd version 2004.1 and read that you had a bug in it and it said to try the experimental version. I downloaded and tried the newest experimental (2004.2.test4) and it still is not working but neither is modprobe. It keeps putting up the error "FATAL: Error inserting 3c59x (/lib/modules/2.6.7-gentoo-r6-livecd/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko): Invalid module format" I cannot find any help on this and this network card works fine under other distrobutions of linux. Thank you for your time.
Well, the README.txt at http://dev.gentoo.org/~jhuebel/2004.2/README.TXT specifically says: The files contained in this directory are pre-release. DO NOT FILE A BUG REPORT IN BUGS.GENTOO.ORG FOR THESE FILES! Please report any problems with the LiveCD/stages via IRC or the amd64 mailing list. I'm going to reassign this to amd64@gentoo.org and hope they don't fricassee you... ;]
You're not only filing bugs about unsupported testing livecds, you also don't read the technotes [1]. The driver for the 3COM 3c940 Ethernet Controller is called "sk98lin" (Marvell Yukon/3COM 3c940), and you can find it beneath the 1000MBit Ethernet section. Please note, that this is hasn't changed since the first LiveCDs. [1] http://amd64.gentoo.org/technotes.xml
