Bug 56936

Summary:	Can't set up network card posibly unsupported?
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	VESPaR <Carmack>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	AMD64 Project <amd64>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major	CC:	livecd
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description VESPaR 2004-07-13 11:15:39 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-13 11:25:14 UTC

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... ;]

Comment 2 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-13 12:50:09 UTC

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