Re: Gentoo on Thinkpad A20m

Finally got the network interface up. I've got one of these A20m's with a
3Com ethernet card/Modem. It uses the 3c59x module. Anyway time to install
some packages!!

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, 3.2.3 wrote:

> 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
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