Re: Gentoo on Thinkpad A20m

Rajesh Shah wrote:
> I had a look at the kernel config from all these sites. It says that I
> should be using the eepro100 driver for the built in ethernet card.
> However whenever I modprobe using this module it just says that it cannot
> find the device. There are no messages in dmesg. The ethernet card does
> work using the 1.4 install CD. How can I tell which driver it is using? I
> did an lsmod but it didn't list any ethernet modules that were loaded.

i believe lsmod shows dynamically loaded modules rather than drivers
built into kernel.

first, there are several hundred different models of a20m, most with a
built-in mini-pci nic, but a few without. check to see if you actually
have a pci ethernet controller:

cat /proc/pci | grep -i ethernet

if there is no built-in pci ethernet controller in your particular model
of a20m, then have you plugged in a pcmcia ethernet card?

if so, then there's a whole 'nother set of hoops to jump through:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14894#86393

and:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=15075#84424

regards,

chris calloway