Bug 86428

Summary:	The driver for my ethernet card is not yet available for Gentoo.
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Marissa King <songmavin>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	amd64
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marissa King 2005-03-23 13:35:24 UTC

I have a 3Com Gigabit NIC, and there isn't a driver available for that card on my LiveCD.  net-setup seems like it works, but when I run ifconfig afterwards it doesn't find an ethernet card, it finds a 'local loopback'.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-23 14:10:57 UTC

Which card is it and which driver does it use?  Did you try to manually modprobe the driver?

Comment 2 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-23 17:37:25 UTC

output from lspci would be useful as well

Comment 3 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-24 11:21:00 UTC

From: 	Marissa King <EMAIL PROTECTED>
To: 	kingtaco@gentoo.org
Subject: 	lspci output
Date: 	Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:15:38 -0800 (PST)  (12:15 CST)

Sorry, didn't know to run lspci...still learning!

Output: (ethernet related part)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet Controller: 3Com Corporation
3c940 10/100/1000 Base-T [Marvell] (rev12)

The liveCD I'm working off of has 3c574 and 3c589, but
doesn't have 3c940... I've tried seeing if I can work
off of the earlier drivers, but those didn't help any.

Hope that helps!
-Marissa

Marissa-
you need to use the module "sk98lin", or if you use the upcoming 2005.0 livecd, you can use "skge" as well.

2004.3: # modprobe sk98lin
2005.0: # modprobe skge
or      # modprobe sk98lin

for more info, see the gentoo/AMD64 technotes at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes/index.xml