Re: can't set up network during install: Chicken Re: [gentoo-newbies] can't set up network during install: Chicken

Ujwal S.Sathyam <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:54:37 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2002-10-13 11:57:20 -0700 3.2.3 <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Ujwal S.Sathyam" wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am trying to install Gentoo Linux using the UT2003 LiveCD on my Dell box and ran into a problem pretty quickly:
>> 
>> I can't get networking up during the installation phase. I have two network cards:
>> 
>> 1. 3COM 905C (3c59x driver)
>> 2. Linksys LNE100 (tulip driver)
>> 
>> Unfortunately, neither module is on the CD. I can't find the Linux kernel sources on the CD either, so I can't recompile it.
> 
> tulip is a pcmcia net driver. pcmcia is missing from the cd. see the
> following link for how to fix:
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14894#86393
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15075#84424
> 

My card is not a PCMCI card, it's PCI. I thought tulip was a driver for the DEC chip. What about the 3COM 905C card. That is actually my primary interface eth0.

Thanks,

Ujwal