Bug 194072 – Network card is not detected - logical mistake

• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Patryk Rzadzinski 2007-09-28 10:44:12 UTC]

In the manual network installation there's a passage stating:

"If however you receive the following error, the network card is not detected:"

Then follows an error that the interface doesn't exist. Basically there's nothing to be detected. It is a matter of either the driver for the NIC is loaded or not. 

I suggest adding hints what to do, if the user gets such error message: List currently loaded modules, identify the module that is required for his NIC model and make, eventually instructions how to get the module loaded.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2007-09-28 13:16:26 UTC]

We already have instructions on how to check for available modules and how to load them immediately prior to that bit:

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To find out what kernel modules we provide for networking, use ls:

Code Listing 10: Searching for provided modules

# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net

If you find a driver for your network card, use modprobe to load the kernel module:

Code Listing 11: Using modprobe to load a kernel module

(As an example, we load the pcnet32 module)
# modprobe pcnet32

To check if your network card is now detected, use ifconfig. A detected network card would result in something like this:
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I think they are sufficient.